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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 10, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 2.

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Success.

We live in a world so strange that even its failures are valuable. —Prof. Swing.
If all were smooth and easy sailing, What triumphs would there be in life? If the vines were never trailing, They would need no pruning-knife. Our very losses are our gains; Our tears are jewels crystalized; Our heaviest crosses and our pains Are answered prayers unrealized. We ask for humble heart and mind, We beg for that sweet charity Which reaches out to all mankind A broad fraternity. And how can we expect this gift While lying on our bed of ease? Some sorrow must our being sift Before this boon we can receive. Our efforts, failures though they be, Are valued by a Higher Power; They help complete the harmony Of Life's momentous hour. Our failures oft are very friends; Success springs from defeat; Reward its honored title lends To those who never know retreat.