INTERFUSED by Susan Coolidge

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jan 20, 1904

INTERFUSED.

By Susan Coolidge

We can not lie every morning, and repent the lie at night; We can not blacken our souls all day, and each day wash them white; Tho the pardoning blood availeth to cleanse the mortal stain, For the sin that goes on sinning, that blood was shed in vain.

We must buy and sell in the market, we must earn our daily bread; But just in the doing these useful acts may the soul be helped and fed. It is not in keeping the day's work and the day's prayer separate so, But by mixing the prayer with the labor that the soul is taught to grow.

Then none may deem it wasted time, who stands in a humble spot, And digs and waters a little space, which the hurrying world heeds not; For the Lord of the harvest equally sends His blessed sun and rain On the large work and the little work, and none of it is in vain. —Susan Coolidge.