Three Words of Strength by Schiller

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Oct 27, 1863

Three Words of Strength.

By Schiller

THERE are three lessons I would write,— Three words as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,— Upon the hearts of men.

Have hope. Though clouds environ now, And gladness hide her face in scorn, Put then the shadow from thy brow, No night but hath its morn.

Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven,— The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth,— Know this : God rules the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth.

Have love. Not love alone for one, But man, as man, thy brother call, And scatter, like the circling sun, Thy charities on all.

Thus grave these lessons on thy soul,— Hope, Faith, and Love; and thou shalt find Strength, when life's surges rudest roll, Light, when thou else wert blind. —Schiller.