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BITTER SWEET

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 2, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 37.

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BITTER SWEET.

A RARE old word, half shadowed and half bright, Half clad in gray, and half in rosy light; And yet it is not hard to comprehend, For gain comes oft through loss, and we have known True joy and comfort out of suffering won, So curiously doth grief and gladness blend.
Our dear Lord Christ doth temper every grief With some deep joy, which brings our hearts relief, So that we may in patience bear our sorrow. The sunlight gilds the clouds that intervene, And on the darkest cloud God's bow is seen, And night yields to the glory of the morrow.