THE THREE LESSONS by Schiller

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 31.

THE THREE LESSONS.

By Schiller

THERE are three lessons I would write— Three words as with a burning pen, In tracing of eternal light, Upon the hearts of men.

Have Hope. Though clouds environ now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow— No night but hath its morn.

Have Faith. Where'er thy barque is driven— The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth— Know this—God rules the host of Heaven, The inhabitants of earth.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, But man, as man, thy brother call, And scatter like the circling sun Thy charities on all.

Thus grave these lessons on thy soul— Faith, Hope, and Love—and thou shalt find Strength when life's surges rudest roll, Light when thou else were blind.

—Schiller.