Your ShelfYour Projects

THE PRICE OF TRUTH

14%

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 14, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 18.

Read the full edition

THE PRICE OF TRUTH.

Great truths are dearly bought. The common truth, Such as men give and take from day to day, Comes in the common walks of daily life, Blown by the careless winds across our way.
Bought in the market at the current price, Bred of the smile, the jest, perchance the bowl, It tells no tales of daring or of worth, Nor pierces e'en the surface of the soul.
Great truths are greatly won—not formed by chance Nor wafted on the breath of summer dreams; But grasped in the great struggle of the soul, Hard buffeting with adverse wind and streams.
Not in the general mart mid corn and wine: Not in the merchandise of gold and gems; Nor in the world's gay hall of midnight mirth, Nor mid the blaze of regal diadems;
But in the day of conflict, fear and grief, When the strong hand of God, put forth in might, Plows up the subsoil of the stagnant heart And brings the imprisoned truth-seeds to the light;
Wrung from the troubled spirit in hard hours Of weakness, solitude, perchance of pain; Truth springs like harvest from the well-plowed field, And the soul feels it has not wept in vain. —Sel.