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THOUGHTS FOR QUIET MOMENTS

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 3, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 15, No. 24.

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THOUGHTS FOR QUIET MOMENTS.

To be the thing we seem; To do the thing we deem Enjoined by duty; To walk in faith, nor dream Of questioning God's scheme Of truth and beauty;
Casting self-love aside, Discarding human pride, Our hearts to measure; In humble hope to hide Each change in fortune's tide, At God's good pleasure.
To trust, although deceived; Tell truth, though not believed; Falsehood disdaining; Patient of ills received, To pardon when aggrieved; Passion restraining.
With love no wrongs can chill, To save, unwearied still, The weak from falling; This is to do God's will On earth—and to fulfill Our heavenly calling. Longman's Horæ Poeticæ.