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The Life Worth Living

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 24, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 4.

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The Life Worth Living

By L. D. Santee

L. D. Santee
Not mine a life of cold and dull inaction, Not mine the joy the sluggard’s bosom feels; Be rather mine the joyous satisfaction Of teaching what the Word of God reveals.
Not mine a life that clings to earth contented, Not mine a folding of the idle hands, But love and joy and hope shall be augmented By faith’s glad view of heaven’s shining lands,
That summer land with lovely flowers undying, The palms of victory, and the white-robed band, And sees life’s sea in wondrous beauty lying, And hears the ripples lapping on its strand.
Be mine the active life of care and labor, The cheerful bearing of the heavy cross, The kindly greeting for the friend and neighbor, The love that counts all earthly gains but loss;
Be mine a life to cheer the mourner’s sorrow, To toil in hope, to watch, as well as pray, Nor tarry for some better time to-morrow To do the work I ought to do to-day.