The Home Circle | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 26, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 33.

The Home Circle.

BETTER THAN GOLD.

Cast your bread upon the water; Pleading, hungry at your feet, High or humble, king or cotter,— Charity's returns are sweet. By a word, if fitly spoken, Howe'er simple it may be, Oft a chain of sin is broken And the fettered slave is free.

Every tear that's stayed from falling, Is a diamond for your crown; O the ceaseless, ceaseless calling Of the dear ones trampled down! But, for those whose strength is given To the shielding of the weak, Storms are stilled; the clouds are riven; Zephyrs chant and sunbeams speak.

Every stream of kindness flowing Stays some feet that sin-ward roam; Every lamp of mercy glowing Guides some straying brother home; Nature opes her veins to nourish Vines of truth where'er they run, And a thousand blossoms flourish Pressing in the track of one.

Cast your bread upon the waters, Moaning sea or dimpled burn— These are all His sons and daughters, Give! nor question the return.

—Selected.