TOIL AND TRUST by Anna J. Granniss

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · May 13, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 19.

TOIL AND TRUST.

By Anna J. Granniss

O, WE are of those who toil and trust! Others may, too, but the toiler must; God has not gone to some distant star, He's in the mill where the toilers are. We know He smiles on us every one For the sake of Christ, the carpenter's son; None other could hear in the noisy mill; But "God hears a thought," and heaven grows still While He measures the tears and counts up the sighs Of the anxious hearts lifting up their cries— O, what shall we do when our loved ones fail? O, what shall we do when their cheeks grow pale? And how shall we buy them fresh fruits and flowers, If we 'tend to their wants in the working hours? But how can we leave them sick and alone? O, how we toilers do love our own! All we can do is to toil and trust! Others may, too, but the toiler must. And God remembers, and He is just. —Anna J. Granniss.