TRUE MEN To GOD RESIGNED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 381, 3 July 1889, Page 5

TRUE MEN To GOD RESIGNED.

The early Fatliers-sage'and seer and prophet, '• ,? Yea.ithe great poet-mind— ' . > , ,So,, prayed, and laboured in ,the Master's vineyard, , , , ITo Grid's great will Vesign'd.* "'' ' , -' ' Not once, but many times, would shadows gather, „<•■■ i To' darken life's fair.day, But knew they well the Master holds the sun1 ) .'beams, > . , And rolls, the clouds away. He will not let the workman pine in darkness, ' When labour needs the light, Nor shall a sorrow ever brealc a true heart , \ lhat bea<sfor God aright. And 1 so they trusted that "dear Hand to guide them ■ > . . < Through unknown paths of Time ; ■ And so they toiled in storm, in shine, and shadow, Serving the Great Subliu «. Through valleys pleasant in the golden summer, Past-desert waves of sand ; ' Oor lofty mountains, crowned with snows eternal, Clasped they His cruiding hand. ' - It Wi.rc not wise that life be ever joyous So clouds obscure His grace: *' •' Yet one grict dies foef ore the next may reach us, , If we our trials face. * ' * ' When on life's journey— should we tiro 'and weary? __. Or deem the distance long ? When each step taken leads us nearer heaven— &ach "Right " breaks down a " Wrong/ Yet should we weary, God does not require, - ' More than our strength may do ; E en should we fail in our allotted labour. He knows whose hearts are true. And thus, in joy and tears— in gloom and gladness, The early Fathers wrought ; Not as they wished, butle&ons hard and weary, 'i he Teaching-Master taught. One creed had they (they were not Jews nor Christians;, One hope-one faith— one mind ; Only to wait or work, as they were bidden. True men, to God. resigned. Rf signed to Him— the Beautiful, the Holy—' Resigned unto His will ; Resigned, when flame and storm were fiercely raging, Resigned when winds were still. 0, Friends ! O, comrades in life's holy battle, Could we so kiss the rod, Not all the shadows that obscure the future Would turn our souls from God ! From •' Tales of Araby," by W. R. Wills.