p. 1 | COMETH A BLESSING DOWN by Mary F. Tucker

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1879

COMETH A BLESSING DOWN.

By Mary F. Tucker

Not to the man of dollars, Not to the man of deeds; Not unto craft and cunning, Not unto human creeds; Not to the one whose passion Is for a world's renown, Not in a form of fashion, Cometh a blessing down.

Not unto land's expansion, Not to the miser's chest, Not to the princely mansion, Not to the blossomed crest; Not to the sordid worldling, Not to the knavish clown, Not to the haughty tyrant, Cometh a blessing down.

But to the one whose spirit Yearns for the great and good; Unto the one whose storehouse Yieldeth the hungry food; Unto the one who labors, Fearless of foe or frown; Unto the kindly hearted, Cometh a blessing down. —Mary F. Tucker.