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WHAT DO WE LIVE FOR?

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 9, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 17, No. 21.

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WHAT DO WE LIVE FOR?

WHat do we live for? Is labor so lowly, Toil so ignoble, we shrink from its strain? Think it not—labor Is godlike and holy, He that is idle is living in vain.
What do we live for? The question is sounding, Low in the silence, and loud in the din, And to each heart-ear, With warm pulses bounding, Answers come thronging, without and within.
What do we live for? To sow, by all waters, Fruit-bearing seeds of deeds for all years; To toil in the ranks With earth's sons and daughters, Manfully striving with doubtings and fears.
What do we live for? We live not to rust out, Slothful by standing aloof from the strife; A thousand times better, More noble to wear out, Batter'd and burn'd in the hot forge of life.