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The Home Circle

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 7, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 30.

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WHAT'S the use of always fretting Over ills that can't be cured? What's the use of finding fault with What we know must be endured?
Does it make our burdens lighter If we grumble 'neath their load? Does it make life's pathway smoother If we fret about the road?
Better use our time than fill it Full of sighs and vain regrets Over some imagined blunder— As does he who always frets.
We cannot expect life's pathway To be always strewn with flowers, Nor the time that God has given To be all made of happy hours.
Storms will follow every sunshine, Grief be mixed with every joy; And 'tis best that it should be so— Gold's too soft without alloy.
"Half our trouble's our invention;" We're to blame for half our strife; Then, if life is what we make it, Why not make the best of life? —Sel.