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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 24, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 52.

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SUCCESS

By S. Frances Gilbreath-Ingersoll

S. FRANCES GILBREATH-INGERSOLL. (Middlefield, Ohio.)
’Tis not in the wealth you may win, Nor honors the world can give, That will crown you highest and truest, In the life you may have to live.
For gold in itself is but dross, boy, And honor an empty name, When you barter your youth’s fair jewels For that which the world calls fame.
The workshop of life may be narrow; The pattern is God’s own plan; And you hold in your own hands the best tools, To build His great work — a man.
The “furnace” may seven times be heated; But if at each time you “ring true,” Be sure the Master is testing Your soul for the best it can do.
Though you win not a leaf of the laurel, Nor mount to a pedestal grand; Though the coin of your honest endeavor Pass current nowhere in earth’s land;
Yet when you are weighed in the balance, And heaven the record shall scan, You’ll have earned to the uttermost farthing The price of the Christ for a man.