Daily Living by Mary Ogden

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 30, 1879

Daily Living.

By Mary Ogden

How many stars upon my crown, Shall shine forever bright, To show the souls that I have won From darkness unto light? From death, and wickedness, and strife, To joy and everlasting life?

How oft have I, in earnest love Of those in error's way, Pointed their souls to Him above Whose will they should obey? Who ever loves and waits to bless Each soul in error and distress.

How often have I sought the lost, And pleaded long in love, Beseeching them to take the cross, And seek a home above? Urged them with patience to endure, And thus eternal life secure?

Have I resisted every sin, With patience, day by day, And sought a starry crown to win, That fadeth not away? Pressed onward to those mansions fair Which Jesus promised to prepare?

And has my life a pattern been To dying sinners here, To lead them to forsake their sin, And for their Lord prepare? Whose vengeance soon will on them fall, If they obey not mercy's call.

O, Lord, forgive, that I no more Can show as work for thee; Since thou hast ever of thy store Blest me so bounteously. Since thou hast left thy home in Heaven, And died that I might be forgiven.

Oh! may my life, my all, be given Henceforth, dear Lord, to thee; And may I ever point to Heaven Each wandering one I see; That when my race on earth is run, My Lord may say to me, "Well done!"

Burksville, W. T. MARY OGDEN.