Time | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1862

Time.

TIME to me this truth has taught, ('Tis a truth that's worth revealing,) More offend for want of thought, Than from any want of feeling.

If advice we would convey, There's a time we should convey it— If we've but a word to say, There's a time in which to say it.

Oft unknowingly the tongue Touches on a chord so aching, That a word or accent wrong, Pains the heart almost to breaking.

Many a tear of wounded pride, Many a fault of human blindness, Has been soothed or turned aside, By a quiet voice of kindness.

Many a beauteous flower decays, Though we tend it e'er so much; Something secret in it preys, Which no human aid can touch.

So in many a lovely breast, Lies some canker-grief concealed, That if touched is more oppressed, Left unto itself is healed.