SCATTER SEEDS OF KINDNESS.
There waa never a golden sunbeam That fell on a lesolate place, But left some trace of its presence That time could never efface. Not a song of ineffable sweetness That ravished the listening ear, Then slumbered in silence forgotten For many and many a year — But a word or a tone might awaken Its magical powers anew, Long after the sweet voiced singer Had faded from earthly view. Nor a heart that was ever so weary, Or tainted w ith sin and despair, But a word of tender compassion Might find an abiding-place there. Yet countless thousands are yearning For sympathy, kindness and love, And fouls are groping in darkness Without one gleam from above. There was never a sunbeam wasted, Nor a song that was sung in vain, And souls that seem lost in the shadows A Saviour's love may reclaim. Then scatter the sunbeams of kindness, Though your deeds may never be known The harvest will ripen in glory If the seed be faithfully sown ; And the life will close with a blessing, And fade into endlesß day ; Like the golden hues of the sunbeam That fade in the twilight grey.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 301, 22 September 1888, Page 2
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198SCATTER SEEDS OF KINDNESS. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 301, 22 September 1888, Page 2
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