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REST WON BY TOIL AND PAIN

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 36.

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REST WON BY TOIL AND PAIN.

Is not the way to heavenly gain Through earthly grief and loss? Rest must be won by toil and pain— The crown repays the cross.
In tears and trials thou must sow, To reap in joy and love; We can not find our home below, And hope for one above.
As woods, when shaken by the breeze, Take deeper, firmer root; As winter’s frost but makes the trees Abound in summer’s fruit.
So every heaven-sent pang and throe That Christian firmness tries, But nerves us for our work below, And forms us for the skies. —Selected.