p. 5 | LET US BE QUIET by R. M. Offord

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 43.

LET US BE QUIET.

By R. M. Offord

BY R. M. OFFORD.

Let us be quiet. What is there to gain By fret and worry in this fleeting life? Alas for all the self-inflicted pain! Alas for all the self-invited strife!

Let us be quiet. Winds and waters wage In vain the fiercest conflict ever known; They can not reach a star, howe'er they rage, Nor touch the base of God's eternal throne.

Let us be quiet when our foes conspire To do us evil or to thwart our good; When friends charge ill to all our right desire, And best of motives are misunderstood.

Let us be quiet when the ghosts arise— Those phantom creatures of night's fevered brain; They fly when morning's sun illumines the skies, And we behold the world in light again.

Let us be quiet. Passing years shall prove Purpose divine upon our welfare bent; True wisdom, hand in hand with deepest love, Works out for us the will omnipotent.

—New York Observer.