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THE TIRED FOOT

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 9, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 30.

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THE TIRED FOOT.

The potter stood at his daily work, One patient foot on the ground; The other, with never-slackening speed, Turning his swift wheel round. Silent, we stood beside him there, Watching the restless knee, Till my friend said low, in pitying voice, "How tired his foot must be!"
The potter never paused in his work, Shaping the wondrous thing; 'Twas only a common flower-pot, But perfect in fashioning. Slowly he raised his patient eyes, With homely truth inspired: "No, marm; it isn't the foot that kicks; The one that stands gets tired!" — The Continent.