Untitled article by Dora Read Goodale

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 5, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 52.

FROM DAY TO DAY.

By Dora Read Goodale

God has assigned to every man Some part in the eternal plan— Some part that all his powers of will, Working in faith, by faith fulfill. To every man a door is shown Whose key is his, and his alone, Though ruin to our ignorant eyes Has fallen upon his paradise. Step after step unfolds the way To those who search, believe, obey; Day after day its lesson brings Of earthly joined to heavenly things; By countless cares, unpraised, unknown, They make their far ideals their own, And still in the world's mirrors trace Reflections of the Father's face. With God there is no great nor small Save as we yield him part or all. All that we are his claim demands— Spirit and brain and heart and hands. Then be our lot however poor, Each dawn is as a welcome door, Each humblest act the wondrous key Of infinite opportunity. The Lord of love with love requite, Honor his service with delight. His is the power—be his the praise Of peaceful nights and virtuous days. Let not thy noon of labor borrow Dark portents from a threatening morrow; Thus, though a thousand ills befall, Strength shall be given to conquer all. —Dora Read Goodale.