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The Day Laborer

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 24, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 4.

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The Day Laborer.

Sow ye beside all waters, Where the dew of heaven may fall! Ye shall reap if ye be not weary, For the Spirit breathes o'er all. Sow, though the thorns may wound thee— One bore the thorns for thee; And though the cold world scorn thee, Patient and hopeful be. Sow ye beside all waters, With a blessing and a prayer; Name Him whose hand upholds us, And sow thou everywhere.
Work! in the wild waste places, Though none thy love may own; God guides the down of the thistle The wand'ring wind has sown. Will Jesus chide thy weakness, Or call thy labor vain? The word that for Him thou bearest Shall return to Him again. Work! with thine heart in heaven, Thy strength in thy Master's might, Till the wide waste places blossom In the warmth of a Saviour's light.
Watch not the clouds above thee; Let the whirlwind round thee sweep; God may the seed-time give thee, But another's hand may reap. Have faith, though ne'er beholding The seed burst from its tomb: Thou knowest not which may perish, Or what be spared to bloom. Room on the narrowest ridges The ripened grain will find, That the Lord of the harvest coming In the harvest sheaves may bind.
—Sel.