How We Learn by Bonar

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 3, 1878

How We Learn.

By Bonar

Great truths are greatly won. Not found by chance, Nor wafted on the breath of summer dream; Nor grasped in the great struggle of the soul, Hard buffeting with adverse wind and stream. Not in the general mart, 'mid corn and wine; Not in the merchandise of gold and gems; Not in the world's gay hall of midnight mirth; Not 'mid the blaze of regal diadems; But in the day of conflict, fear and grief, When the strong hand of God, put forth in might, Plows up the subsoil of the stagnant heart, And brings the imprisoned truth-seed to the light. Wrung from the troubled spirit, in hard hours Of weakness, solitude, perchance of pain, Truth springs, like harvest, from the well-plowed field, And the soul feels it has not wept in vain. —Bonar.