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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 19, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 20.

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Quitters

By Llewellyn A. Morrison

By LLEWELLYN A. MORRISON
“If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.”—Solomon
The cowards who quit when the trial Of manhood is stern and intense, When pressures that brook no denial Permit but aggressive defense, When time and the strife are upon you, Where purpose and destiny meet: Ye falter, and failure is on you; Ye quail, and go down to defeat.
Ye fling in the face of the Giver The life and the talents He sent; Ye squander His gifts and deliver The waste of the treasures He lent. Your deeds are the forgings that fetter Your souls in the dungeons of wo; Ye knew, but ye would not do better; Ye reap what your vileness did sow.
Tis true that the toil has grown tenser, As days fill the warp of the years; The mist of misfortune falls denser, And darkens the rain of your tears; Sore pressed by defeat and disaster, Ye shrink from the blare and the blast, And hear not the voice of the Master Of Ages, that bids you stand fast.
Stand firm if ye can not do better, ’Tis thus the great battles are won; No alien or evil can fetter The fighter that faces the sun. Close ranks with your fellows and cheer them— Their feet may be caught in the clod,— If ye stand like “comforters” near them, Ye all shall be braver for God.
Advance, tho the mountains sweep skyward— Thy blood gaineth flood by the rise; Retreat is a craven’s base by-word, Unknown in the speech of the skies. Win out! for they win who go under, If truth be their guerdon of might: No sky-roll shall list them asunder From victors who fail for the right.