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LIFE'S TOOLS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 21, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 41.

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LIFE'S TOOLS.

By L. B. Walford

BY L. B. WALFORD.
A MAN is wanted for the Lord? Life, take thy tools, and make this man. Hew him, and shape, and mould, and form— On ancient lines. Thou know'st the plan.
Thine ax?—Affliction. Chisel?—Care. Thy gnawing saw?—The fretting strain Of ceaseless toil. Thy mallet's blows?— The humbled hope—the bitter pain.
Life, do thy work. But ere it close, With tenderer skill the task pursue,— Smooth gently o'er the rugged edge, And softly touch with evening dew.
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What's here? A simpleton? A babe? A block?—Nay, such he came to thee. But, wrought by Life into a man, He passes to eternity.
—Independent.