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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 23, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 20.

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By John Greenleaf Whittier

BETTER to stem with heart and hand The roaring tide of life, than lie, Unmindful, on the flowery strand Of God's occasions drifting by! Better with naked nerve to bear The needles of this goading air, Than, in the lap of sensual ease, forego The Godlike power to do, the Godlike aim to know.
— The Last Walk in Autumn.