The Home Circle by Charles Swain

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 14, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 27.

The Home Circle.

By Charles Swain

IMAGINARY EVILS.

Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow; Leave things of the future to fate; What's the use to anticipate sorrow? Life's troubles come never too late! If to hope overmuch be an error, 'Tis one that the wise have preferred; And how often have hearts been in terror Of evils that never occurred!

Have faith—and thy faith shall sustain thee— Permit no suspicion and care With invisible bonds to enchain thee, But bear what God gives thee to bear. By his Spirit supported and gladdened, Be ne'er by forebodings deterred, But think how oft hearts have been saddened By fear—of what never occurred!

Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow; Short and dark as our life may appear, We may make it still darker by sorrow— Still shorter by folly and fear! Half our troubles are half our invention; And often by blessings conferred, Have we shrunk in the wild apprehension Of evils that never occurred! —Charles Swain.