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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 18, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 3.

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MISSIONS

By Elizabeth B. Zachariasen

REAPING.

BY ELIZABETH B. ZACHARIASEN.
WHILE the years are swiftly passing, As we watch them come and go, Do we realize the maxim, We must reap whate'er we sow?
When the past comes up before us, All our thoughts, our acts and deeds, Shall they glean for us fair roses, Or a harvest bear of weeds?
Are we sowing seeds to blossom? We shall reap some day,—somewhere, Just what here we have been sowing, Worthless weeds or roses fair.
All around us whispering ever, Hear the voice of Nature speak, Teaching all the self-same lesson, "As you sow so shall you reap."
Tho there's pardon for each sinner In God's mercy vast and mild, Yet the law that governs nature, Governs e'en fair nature's child.