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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1892

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 3.

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RESTLESS and unsatisfied, "Of what use is life?" I cried; "All my wishes are denied. All my duties trivial seem; I have energies I deem. What I could be oft I dream, Yet I cannot see my way From this spot whereon I stay, So hope fadeth day by day."
Then a voice was at my side: "Let my conduct be thy guide." 'Twas his voice, the Crucified. "Law and prophets to fulfill Was my life devoted still, For I came to do His will; What that will? The Scriptures saith, Thirty years of Nazareth, Three years' public work, then death.
"Thirty years, unknown, I trod Galilee's sequestered sod. But my life was known to God; Daily work at Joseph's call; Daily life 'mid duties small. Yet I was the Lord of all. Daughter, if thy life be true, Thou a blessed work shall do, Though unseen to mortal view.
"I shall know it; I shall see When, with willing heart and free, Thou obedient art to me. All thy quiet life I know, For I planned it long ago. Wouldst thou that it were not so? I have given all for thee; Live thy quiet life for me, So it shall transfigured be."
Now on these sweet words I rest, And have ceased my anxious quest, For the Master knoweth best. —Selected.