BE EARNEST | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 7, 1862

BE EARNEST.

Be earnest; struggle on and up The rugged hill of life; Drink to the dregs the brimming cup Of earnest toil and strife.

Rouse! dream not all thy hours away; Labor, and toil, and strive; This is no world for idle play— A reckoning must arrive.

Be earnest! gird thy armor on; Look not at praise of men; Look for the prize of only One— The Great and Holy Lamb.

Be earnest! wake thy sluggish soul; Rouse for the noble fight; Give up thy heart—yea, give the whole, And work with all thy might.

Be earnest! stop not, no delay, Act in the present hour— Yea, act, and acting, humbly pray That God would give the power.

Be earnest! though thy labor seem To thee to come to naught; Work on—ere long a heavenly gleam Will show what thou hast wrought.

And when at last the toil is o'er, When death's dark hour shall come, Thou'lt hear the welcome message sound, "Servant, thou hast well done."