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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jun 14, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 23.

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The Missionary.

"WEAR OUT."

"Wear out!" but never let the rust Of idleness corrode the trust Your Maker gave; your part to play In the great drama of "To-day" Is to deal justly; aid the weak; Ever for right and freedom speak; Keep burning clear Truth's beacon light, That its soft radiance through the night Be to the lost on life's bleak moor Like Bethlehem's star that shone of yore, Guiding the shepherds on their way To where the child Redeemer lay.
"Wear out!" though stern your features grow, Though raven locks be turned to snow, On to the front! nor laggard be. With sturdy blows comes victory! Shame on the weak and nerveless hand That cannot grasp Truth's shining brand; That shrinks when from fair freedom's tower The tocsin sounds the trial hour; That fails, when justice calls, to go With battle-ax and "bended bow," And prove, upon his native sod, His fealty to man and God! —Selected.