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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 15, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 44, No. 25.

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“ONLY WAIT!”

By M. D. Britts

When the spirit, worn and weary With its daily load of care, Finds the pathway long and dreary And the burden hard to bear: Tired with hoping, faint with fearing, Sighs to reach the “golden gate,” Then in accents soft and cheering, Patience whispers, “Only wait!” For a brighter day is dawning, Sunshine beams at early morning In the beauty of the morning, Only wait!
O sad hearts, whose soundless sorrow Dares not let one murmur fall, Only wait until the morrow, God’s great love is o’er us all, Only wait, O wounded spirit, By life’s heavy cross weighed down,— Thou shalt surely Heaven inherit, Bear the cross, and win the crown. Win and wear it at the dawning Of the everlasting morning, In the glory of the morning! Only wait!
Only wait! The cloud suspended— Future ways of light between— With the gold of heaven is blended, Veils the glowing sun unseen. Only wait! These measured losses God’s great mercies shall restore, Only points these wayside crosses To the fruitful lands before. Wait and watch, the day is dawning Over yonder breaks the morning, Lovely light of heavenly morning! Only wait.
—M. D. BRITTS, in The Companion.