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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 3, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 1.

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The Home Circle.

By S. J. Jones

A LITTLE WHILE.

WHY should we mourn that for a little while Our path must be through rough and thorny ways? Why should we sorrow that the sun should hide Behind the clouds his brightly golden rays? Why should we weep? Nay, why not rather smile? 'Tis, at the longest, but a little while.
Why should we murmur that the draught of joy Is dashed away from lips all parched with pain? 'Tis but a little while—the toil, the heat, The burning thirst, and then our feet shall gain The far, cool heights of bliss, and we shall know The fountain pure that from the Throne doth flow.
Why should we grieve that for a little while Our loved are gathered from our arms away, And laid to rest beneath the flowers' bloom, To wait the dawning of a brighter day? We cannot miss them long, the darkest night Is but a little while—and then the light!
The light that shall illumine all the graves That we have made and watered with our tears; That shall light up the path that we have trod With dread misgivings and with painful fears; Light that shall tell why He would have it so, Whose promise is: "Hereafter ye shall know." —S. J. Jones.