The Way We Look at It by W. E. Haskell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 2, 1902

The Way We Look at It

By W. E. Haskell

W. E. HASKELL

LIFE'S weal or woe is made or marred So much by what we view. 'Tis well we then should learn to look At things of worth and true. And oft in life as much depends (Whate'er our life may be) Not only on at what we look, But on just how we see.

In hopeless gloom Doubt still can note, Where'er life's pathway goes, Amid the beauty of its flowers, The thorn with ev'ry rose. But Faith and Hope the same paths tread, Yet ne'er can be forlorn. With all the thorns of life they see The rose with every thorn.

Doubt sees imagined wrong in all, No good thing to commend; But criticises and condemns As foe the truest friend. But Faith and Love the good behold Wherever they may go, See some of Christ in every soul, A friend in every foe.

So all through life Doubt halts to find The side which is the worse; With all the blessings from on high With ev'ry one a curse. Yet Faith rejoicing goes its way In spite of what's distressing, Beholds in all the Father's love, In ev'ry curse a blessing.

Where Doubt finds loss, there Faith sees gain. Faith's day to Doubt is night. Doubt's deepest gloom and darkest cloud Is Faith's shekinah light. With cross and crown, and bitter, sweet, And pain, and pleasure too, Sunshine and cloud and life and death; 'Tis much in how we view.