The Home Circle by Marion Manville

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 11.

The Home Circle.

By Marion Manville

RECOMPENSE.

THERE is no day but has its share of light, And somewhere in the dark there shines a star at night. There is no cloud, however black and grim, That does not touch the sunlight with its outmost rim.

There is no sorrow borne without its gain, No perfect joy that was not ushered in with pain. There is no woe that can outlast the years, No smile so sweet in life as that which follows tears.

We learn to do without our own because There is some recompense in all of nature's laws; No sun can rise until the sun has set; No life be lived that has not somewhere known regret.

This thought, my friend, take with thee for the days; God were not God if man could fathom all his ways. And as thy day goes down its western slope, Know, next to faith, his greatest gift to thee is hope. —Marion Manville.