Success Lies in the Conflict by M. C. Wilcox

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 24, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 50.

Success Lies in the Conflict

By M. C. Wilcox

He thought to win the prize from strife apart, He thought to reach the goal through paths of ease, That he could rest in morn, and then appease The God of right; that he by sleight or art Could burke the Master's rules, ignore the chart, And finish safe and sure across the seas His voyage; that good would come by evil breeze, And joy eternal from a faithless heart. But sad the disappointment, sore and keen, The Dead Sea apples soon to ashes turn, The bloom of life has fallen as of yore; A steady candle's more than meteor's sheen. We lose the harvest-home when faith we spurn, 'Tis loss of hope and life forevermore.