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LEARN TO WAIT

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 23.

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LEARN TO WAIT.

Learn to wait. Life's hardest lesson, Conned perhaps through blinding tears, While the heart throbs sadly echo To the tread of passing years.
Constant sunshine, fondly welcomed, Doth not ripen fruit or flower; Giant oaks owe strength and greatness To the tempest's scathing power.
Thus the soul untouched by sorrow Aims not at a brighter state; Joy seeks not a brighter morrow; Only sad hearts learn to wait.
Human strength and human greatness Spring not from life's sunny side; Heroes must be more than driftwood Floating on a waveless tide. —Selected.