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THE WOODMAN AND THE SANDAL-TREE

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 18, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 23.

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THE WOODMAN AND THE SANDAL-TREE.

By W. C. Bryant

Beside a sandal-tree a woodman stood And swung the axe, and, as the strokes were laid Upon the fragrant trunk, the generous wood With its own sweets perfumed the cruel blade. Go, then, and do the like; a soul endued With light from Heaven, a nature pure and great, Will place its highest bliss in doing good, And good for evil give, and love for hate. —From the Spanish, by W. C. Bryant.