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BE GLAD

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 7, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 45.

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BE GLAD.

Be glad when the flowers have faded? Be glad when the trees are bare? When the fog lies thick on the fields and moors And the frost is in the air? When all around is a desert, And the clouds obscure the light, When there are no songs for the darkest day, No stars for the longest night?
Be glad when the world is lonely, And the heart has been bereft? When, of all the loves of the young springtime, Scarcely a friend is left? Be glad in the desolate valley, After the sunny hills? When the joy of the morning is far behind, And the gloom its task fulfils?
Ah, yes! for the truest gladness Is not in ease or mirth? It has its home in the heart of God, Not in the loves of earth. God's love is the same forever, If the skies are bright or dim, And the joy of the morning lasts all day, When the heart is glad to Him.
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