THE RIGHT WAY | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 16, 1873

THE RIGHT WAY.

I would not leave the path untrod, Though rough the way and long; I would the beaten track pursue, Nor shrink from dangers others knew; Would meet the foes that others met, When Zionward their face they set; Would learn the victor’s song.

I would not leave the work undone Which God lays to my hand; Although it seem to others small, I undertook it at his call, So small no fellow-workers see, But yet it is the work for me, No more does God demand.

I want to fill my little place With loving word and deed; To whisper kind in sorrow’s ear, And with the weeping drop a tear; For others to be ever living, To know the deep, deep joy of giving, This joy my only meed.

To be a ray, however faint, Where all around is dark; To be a smile where all is gloom, To be a blossom on a tomb, To be a voice where all is still, To be a spark where all is chill, A little, tiny spark.

To give my all to him who gave So much in love to me: To yield to thy supreme control; To give my mind, my strength, my soul, For thee alone to work—to live— Yet feel that I can never give Enough, my God, to thee.

—Christian Treasury.