Sunday at Home
THREE LESSON'S.’ There are three lessons I would write, Three words, as with a burning pen. In teachings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope —though clouds environ round And Gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, No night but has its morn. Have Faith —where’er thy bark is driven, The calm’s disport, the tempest’s mirth. Know this —God rules the hosts of heaven And the inhabitants of the earth. Have love —not love alone for one, But man as man thy brother call, And scatter like the circling sun Thy benefits on all. Thus grave these lessons on thy soul— Hope, Faith, and Love —and thou shalt find Strength where Life’s surges rudest rool, Light where thou else wert blind. Selected,
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 28, 6 October 1894, Page 5
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134Sunday at Home Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 28, 6 October 1894, Page 5
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