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MY HEART'S DESIRE

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 31, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 13.

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MY HEART'S DESIRE.

By A. J. Rose Lovejoy

BY A. J. ROSE LOVEJOY.
Only to do my duty; only in faith to stand, To love my blessed Master, and honor his command. Only to work for Jesus, whatever I may do, Knowing his eye beholds me, and approves me too.
Only to follow, in meekness, the shining path He made; In every, and all surroundings, my will at His feet be laid. To work while the day is shining, knowing that night full soon Will come with the day's declining, and bring the hour of doom.
That only my lamp be lighted, that oil be in my cruse, Nor light, nor truth be slighted, or blessings 'ere abuse. Only (though most unworthy), to abide within the Vine To heed each heavenly warning, and work while yet there's time.
Travel life's road with patience, and cling to the goodly pearl, Be proof against temptation, and darts that enemies hurl. To love and do His commandments, to turn from worldly strife, To set my face toward Zion, and win eternal life.
That I may be up and doing, at the midnight cry of the blest, No sleep or slumber wooing, from my eternal rest. Thus only to do my duty, in love and faith to stand, To welcome "The King in his beauty," and dwell in the promised land.
Oakland, Feb. 28, 1881.