LIFE'S WORK | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 23, 1858

LIFE'S WORK.

All around thee, fair with flowers Fields of beauty sleeping lie; All around thee, clarion voices Call to duty stern and high.

Be thou thankful, and rejoice in All the beauty God has given; But beware, it does not win thee From the work ordained of heaven.

To remove the wide-spread darkness, That the light of truth may shine; And recall the child of error, To Jehovah's holy shrine.

To encourage suffering virtue, Lest despairing, it shall die, And the light of hope re-kindle In the darkened, vacant eye.

Cheerfully of thine abundance To the sick and poor impart; Thus the weight of sorrow lifting From the crushed and wounded heart.

Now, to-day, and not to-morrow, Work, O work, with all thy might. Lest the wretched faint and perish In the coming, stormy night.

Now, to-day, and not to-morrow, Lest, ere to-morrow's setting sun, Thou too, mournfully departing, Shalt have left thy work undone.—Sel.