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The Heat of the Day

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 14, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 11.

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The Heat of the Day.

There must be those who bear the heat And burden: on with weary feet They toil along the noontide way, Nor rest when comes the fall of day. Through dewy morns, through tender eves, Love’s labor keeps them binding sheaves Which no man cares for. One on high Will count their earnings by-and-by.
O patient heart! heroic will! That bends to work such strength and skill! The angels sometimes stoop to ask The meaning of thy daily task. God knows, beyond an angel’s ken, The grandeur God bestows on men Whom sorrow, failure, pain, and loss But crown anew at every cross. —Sel.