CONFLICT AND VICTORY by Good Words

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 23, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 12.

CONFLICT AND VICTORY.

By Good Words

O REFUGE of men, worn and weary, With suffering and sin oft distressed, Could'st Thou leave 'mid surroundings so dreary Thy peace as a dying bequest? We've felt strange 'mid our kindred and neighbors, Been lonely in thick haunts of men, Had to rest on a stone from our labors, And no visions to comfort us then. We are weary with chasing the shadows, And bearing our burdens of care; For our way has not lain through the meadows, We have chosen the dust and the glare. We have lived for ourselves 'stead of others, Sought in temples of pleasure our shrine, Held no cup to the lips of our brothers, Or with gall often mingled the wine. We'll live for this world, then, no longer, It can bring to us nothing of bliss, Let love in our heart become stronger To God and to man than it is.