MEETING AND PARTING

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 1, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 22.

MEETING AND PARTING.

How little we know of each other! As we meet here awhile and then part; How little we learn of the sorrows, The pains, or the joys of each heart. Our hands fondly clasp at the greeting, We join them again ere we go, Yet how little we know of each other, In this journey of life, here below.

Oh, how little we know of each other! Of the erring we meet on the way; Or how often the faint heart has wrestled With the tempter that leads it astray; Or the fightings, repentings and failings, Of the weary ones, struggling for right; Oh, how little we know as we pass them, How much we might aid in the fight.

Oh, how little we know of each other! Though we mingle in life's bustling throng; Now, a light foot trips joyously past us, Now, there's music and laughter, and song, But we see not the wounds deeply hidden, 'Neath the covering so joyous and bright, Oh, how little we know of each other; How little we aid in the right.

How little we know of each other! In this journey of life here below; We meet for awhile, and then sever, Yet clasp trembling hands ere we go; But there is a land o'er the river, Where no heart-ache or farewell can come, There—there, we shall know one another! The Father's dear children, at home. —Sel.