Life's Answer | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 24, 1863

Life's Answer.

I KNOW not if the dark or bright Shall be my lot; If that wherein my hopes delight Be best, or not.

It may be mine to drag for years Toil's heavy chain: Or day and night my meat be tears On bed of pain.

Dear faces may surround my hearth With smiles and glee; Or I may dwell alone, and mirth Be strange to me.

My bark is wafted to the strand By breath divine: And on the helm there rests a hand Other than mine.

One who has known in storms to sail, I have on board; Above the raging of the gale, I hear my Lord.

He holds me when the billows smite— I shall not fall. If sharp, 'tis short; if long, 'tis light; He tempers all.

Safe to the land, safe to the land— The end is this; And then with Him go hand in hand, Far into bliss. —Macmillan's Magazine.