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The Home Circle

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 15, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 47.

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The Home Circle.

By E. H. Arr.

COMPENSATION.

EARTH plowed the deepest, bears the best; Growth comes of motion, not of rest; From sweetest grapes, in presses flung, The richest wine is sharply wrung.
Then let your harrowed, anguished soul Enrich, and ripened sheaves unroll; For lo! endurance means in thee Maturing for eternity.
No word, nor look, nor touch, perchance, Of mortals can thy strength enhance, Till they shall have, by God's decrees, The plowshare felt and borne the sheaves.
It is not new, this hurt of thine; All hearts have ached that give the wine. In time, when bead from must runs clear, The love that bruised thee shall appear. —E. H. Arr.