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To Be Alive

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 2, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 31.

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To Be Alive

By Henry Sept Sutton

“How beautiful it is to be alive!” To wake each morn as if the Maker’s grace Did us afresh from nothingness derive, That we might sing, “How happy is our case! How beautiful it is to be alive!”
To read in God’s great Book, until we feel Love for the love that gave it, then, to kneel Close up to him whose truth our souls will shrive, While every moment’s joy doth more reveal How beautiful it is to be alive!”
Rather to go without what might increase Our worldly standing, than our souls deprive Of frequent speech with God, or than to cease To feel, though having wasted health or peace, How beautiful it is to be alive!”
Not to forget, when pain and grief draw nigh, Into the ocean of time past to dive For memories of God’s mercies, or try To bear all, sweetly hoping still to cry, How beautiful it is to be alive!”
— Henry Sept Sutton.