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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 20, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 8.

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WORTH WHILE.

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is easy enough to be pleasant When life flows by like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong; For the test of the heart is trouble, And it always comes with tears; And the smile that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.
It is easy enough to be prudent When nothing tempts you to stray, When without or within no voices of sin Are luring your soul away. But ’tis only a negative virtue Until it is tried by fire; And the life that is worth the honor of earth, Is the one that resists the desire. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox.