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TO EVERY MAN HIS WORK

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 11, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 44.

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TO EVERY MAN HIS WORK.

Our Master has taken his journey To a country far away, And has left us a task to finish Against his reckoning day. There's a work for me, and a work for you, Something for each of his servants to do.
Your task may be great and glorious, And mine but a simple one; It differs little. The question is, Will his coming find it done?
Or perhaps in his deeper knowledge He has thought it wise and best That, while others toil in service, Our part be to wait and rest.
It matters not, in this little while, Whether we work, or watch, or wait, So we fill the place he assigns us, Be the service small or great.
There is one thing only concerns us,— To find the task that is ours, And then, having found it, to do it With all our God-given powers.
Our Master is coming most surely, To reckon with everyone; Shall we then count toil or sorrow, If his sentence be, "Well done"?
—Faith and Works.