The Home Circle by Grace S. Brown

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 30, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 38.

The Home Circle.

By Grace S. Brown

REST.

"Come ye yourselves apart, and rest awhile." O THOU who feel'st life's journey long, And fain would'st, with a listless song, The time beguile, Leave thou the world, its gain, its loss, Come sit beneath the Saviour's cross, And rest awhile. O thou poor, weary, anxious one, Toiling from morn till set of sun. Nor yet one smile To soothe that dull and aching heart, Oh, come now from yourself apart, And rest awhile. Thou child of pleasure, bright and gay, Happy and thoughtless day by day, Thou, too, need'st rest; Lest in thy joy and selfish pride, Thou should'st forget the One who died To make thee blest. And thou, e'en though thy life hath been One long and unrepented sin, So dark, so vile; Though all the world oppress and hate, He calls thee now, ere 'tis too late, To rest awhile. —Grace S. Brown.