RIGHT SHALL RULE by J. A. Edgerton

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 9, 1902

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

RIGHT SHALL RULE.

By J. A. Edgerton

SHORT is the triumph of evil, Long is the reign of right; The men who win by the aid of sin, The nation that rules by might, The party that lives by corruption, The trickster, the knave, the thief, May thrive for a time on the fruits of crime, But their seeming success is brief. Sneer, if you will, at honor; Make virtue a theme for jest; Reflect on the man who strives as he can To seek and to do the best;

Make goodness a butt for slander, And offer excuse for vice; Proclaim the old lie, the corruptionist's cry That every man has his price. Yet know that the truth shall triumph, That evil shall find its doom; That the cause of right, tho subdued by might, Shall break from the strongest tomb; That wrong, tho it seem to triumph, Lasts only for a day, *While the cause of truth has eternal youth, And shall rule o'er the world for aye.* —J. A. Edgerton.