THE BEAUTY OF TRUTH by G. C. B.

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 6, 1879

THE BEAUTY OF TRUTH

By G. C. B.

THE highest joys of life to win, The Talisman 'gainst woe and sin, The heav'n on earth here to begin, Is to be true and pure within.

So thou, my child, as rolls the years, With greater hopes and greater fears, Doubt not, should falsehood cause thee tears, For light will come; Truth always cheers.

As sunshine through the forest leaves, As sickle 'mid the harvest sheaves, So truth its pathway surely weaves, While round it joy and beauty cleaves.

Stretch forth thy hand and grasp the shield, The high and low alike may wield, To falsehood, foeman, never yield One inch of truth's broad battlefield.

—G. C. B. in Oakland Tribune.