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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 3.

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LABOR IS LIFE

By Frances S. Osgood

LABOR is life! ’Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bew aileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth; Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labor is glory! The flying cloud lightens; Only the waving wing changes and brightens; Idle hearts only the dark future frightens. Play the sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune!
Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us; Rest from sin promptings that ever entreat us; Rest from the world-sirens that lure us to ill; Work, and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work, thou shalt ride over Care’s coming billow; Lie not down wearied ’neath Woe’s weeping willow! Work with a stout heart and resolute will!
— Frances S. Osgood.