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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 3, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 22.

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My Desire

By Mary A. Newman

Just to help others along the way, Sending out love-thoughts every day, Cheering the sad with a trusting song,— This be my life as I pass along.
Seeing the beautiful, hearing the true, Thoughts of the good in all that I do; Living the life that the Master taught, So with his mind and Spirit fraught;
Letting all questioning turn to faith, Listening only to what he saith; Dying to self as I rise to him. Heaven’s light clearer, as earth’s grows dim;
Taking the gifts his hand bestows, Caring for nothing because he knows; So may his sunshine light my way, Brighter unto the “perfect day.”
“Trusting and resting,” keeping still, Only desiring to do his will,— This is the life to which I aspire, This is the sum of my heart’s desire.
— Mary A. Newman.