TRUE BLESSEDNESS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 5, 1892

TRUE BLESSEDNESS.

It is not blessedness to know that thou thyself art blessed; True joy was never yet by one, nor yet by two possessed. Nor to the many is it given, but only to the all; The joy that leaves one heart unblessed would be for mine too small; For when my spirit most was blessed, to know another grieved Would take away the joy from all myself received. Nor would I seek to blunt that pain, forgetting other's woe; From knowledge, not from want of thought, true blessedness must grow. For blessedness I find this earth of ours is then no place, Where still the happiest man must meet his brother's grieving face. And only in one thought I find a joy I never miss, In faith to know all grief below will grow to final bliss. And he who holds this faith will strive with firm and ardent soul, And work out his own proper good in working for the whole. God only sees this perfect good; the way to it is dim; God only then is truly blest, man truly blest in him. —Ruckert's Wisdom of the Brahmins.