LIVING | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 2, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 47.

LIVING.

To TOIL and strive for worldly gain, To live alone for selfish ends, To count wealth's increase grain by grain, Till affluence and you are friends,

To revel in each gay delight, The gaudy toys that wealth can give, To seek for joy from morn till night, And shrink from grief, is not to live.

To study knowledge year by year, The mind absorbed in that alone, Regardless of the wrong so near The cause that you might make your own.

This is not life, for life demands Devoted work of heart and brain; To sit with sleeping soul, and hands That work not, is to live in vain.

Remember there are tears to dry; Remember there is pain and wrong; Up, man! the years are fleeting by; Your time for labor is not long.

Work while 'tis day to soothe distress, To lead the erring to the light; Thy mission is to save and bless, So earn thy rest e'er comes the night.

Be mindful of thy brother's needs, To each and all thy succor giving; By noble thoughts, and words, and deeds, Make the world better for thy living. —Selected.