HAVE you known aught of pain and woe?
Does every morn new troubles bring?
This fair fruit of the Spirit show -
Long-suffering. HEVI 37.6
Do others labor to annoy,
Seeking to rouse your wrath at length?
Suffer ye long, this faith your joy -
God is your strength. HEVI 37.7
Do those around say things untrue,
Injure you quite beyond recall?
Suffer ye long, and comfort you:
God seeth all. HEVI 37.8
Do others taunt because your way
Leads up to heaven from earth below?
Suffer ye long, this thought your stay -
God wills it so. HEVI 37.9
Just like the martyrs in the past,
When harassed, tempted, or oppressed,
Suffer ye long, until, at last,
God bids you rest. -George Wetherly. HEVI 37.10
The Review and Herald, September 26, 1899.