The Home Circle | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 44.

The Home Circle.

COMPENSATION.

THE truest words we ever speak Are words of cheer. Life has its shade, its valleys deep; But round our feet the shadows creep, To prove the sunlight near. Between the hills those valleys sleep— The sun-crowned hills! And down their sides will those who seek With hopeful spirit, brave, though meek, Find gently flowing rills.

For every cloud a silvery light— God wills it so. For every vale a shining height; A glorious morn for every night; A birth for labor's throe; For snow's white wing a verdant field; A gain for loss; For buried seed the harvest yield; For pain a strength, a joy revealed; A crown for every cross. —Sel.