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Life's Lesson

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 22, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 46.

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Life's Lesson

EACH for himself must read life's lesson. Each Must live alone his life. Each one must tell What life's experience has brought to him. Not what we get, but what we long for, makes Or mars our lives. It is not happiness Alone that makes life blest. Sometimes we hope For that which One who knoweth all our hearts Holds back, that thus we may some lesson learn, Some page divine may read through bitter tears, While He, knowing the future, turns the leaves. Teach us, dear Lord, not to be satisfied With earthly joys, but to be willing first To suffer much, if need be, to fulfil The higher law of living—to love much And live not for ourselves alone. — Unknown.