THE AVERAGE MAN by Margaret E. Sangster

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 22, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 21.

THE AVERAGE MAN.

By Margaret E. Sangster

When it comes to a question of trusting Yourself to the risks of the road, When the thing is the sharing of burdens, The lifting the heft of a load, In the hour of peril or trial, In the hour you meet as you can, You may safely depend on the wisdom And skill of the average man.

'Tis the average man and no other Who does his plain duty each day, The small thing his wage is for doing, On the commonplace bit of the way; 'Tis the average man, may God bless him, Who pilots us, still in the van, Over land, over sea, as we travel, Just the plain, hardy, average man.

So on thru the days of existence, All mingling in shadow and shine, We may count on the every-day hero, Whom haply the gods may divine, But who wears the swarth grime of his calling, And labors and earns as he can, And stands at the last with the noblest, The commonplace average man. —Margaret E. Sangster.