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The Home Circle

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 35.

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The Home Circle.

By Mrs. M. F. Butts

THE LAST DAY.

Were this the last of earth, This very day, How should I think and act? What should I say? Would not I guard my heart With earnest prayer? Would not I serve my friends With loving care?
How tender every word As the hours wane! "Like this we shall not sit And talk again." How soft the beating heart That soon must cease! What glances carry love— What heavenly peace!
And yet this fleeting life Is one last day; How long soe'er its hours, They will not stay. O heart, be soft and true While thou dost beat; O hands, be swift to do, O lips, be sweet.
—Mrs. M. F. Butts, in Christian Union.