p. 126 | Tribulation Worketh Patience

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 25, 1875

Tribulation Worketh Patience.

As the harp-strings only render All their treasures of sweet sound, All their music, glad or tender, Firmly struck or tightly bound;

So the hearts of Christians owe Each its deepest, sweetest strain, To the pressure firm of woe, And the tension tight of pain.

Spices crushed their pungence yield, Trodden scents their sweets respire; Would you have its strength revealed, Cast the incense in the fire.

Thus the crushed and broken frame Oft doth sweetest graces yield; And through suffering, toil, and shame, From the martyr's keenest flame, Heavenly incense is distilled! The Voice of Christian Life in Song.