DISAPPOINTED PEOPLE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 25, 1879

DISAPPOINTED PEOPLE.

An article on disappointed people, in The Christian at Work, of Aug. 28, 1879, closes with these cheering words:—

Still, let the army of the disappointed ones take courage. If, amid apparent failure, we preserve our own self-respect, that is much! If we hold fast to our trust in God, that is much! If, through sorrow’s night and danger’s path, we are going home, going home, that is much! Perhaps, though we fail of the star on the shoulder here, and never attain even to brevet rank in this world, the Captain of our salvation may reward us when the campaigns are over, and crown us when we sit at last in the light of his smile. Let us take courage. We are obscure, and our work is small. We sing songs, but our harps hang on the willows. We write essays, and the world is too busy to read them. We bring home the week’s wages, and it takes every cent to pay the week’s bills. We rock the cradle, we weed the garden, we wind the clock, we lie down, we arise. One day is like another, and the last is coming on fast. But be of good cheer, and lift up joyful eyes, for disappointment and trouble and loss shall all work together for our good, if we belong to the Lord Jesus, and love his name, and wait for his appearing.