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The Home Missionary

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 10, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 9.

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The Home Missionary

By Clara Edna Rosencrans

By Clara Edna Rosencrans
It was only a friendly visit From a woman old and gray — One who had known life's sorrows, And been for long in the way. She came with a kindly impulse To lighten my pain a while. She sang me the songs of Zion. She cheered me with her smile. She read, from a treasured volume, Of the land where the weary rest, Of the land where all sorrow ceases, And where every heart is blessed. And the heavy burden lifted, That my heart had borne all day; And when she went at sunset, She carried it quite away. It was only a friendly visit From a woman bent and old, But the joy that followed her footsteps Was better far than gold. So as I kneel in the twilight To offer to God my prayer, I'll ask His richest blessing On His servant with silvered hair.