Take Heart

COGITATION. 29

peak rises above peak, and exaltation above exaltation, faith climbs each once inaccessible summit, aided by that all-potent spiritual force which the experienced one called "God working in us to will and to do of his good pleasure." "For we are his offspring," said the seer, and by the alphabet of the primary principles of the Gospel, man finally enters into the temple of God's elect, when the science of eternal life is fully understood, where teachers "versed in won- drous lore" will see to it that the advanced and advancing pupil shall graduate "from glory to glory" as our Elder Brother-our Father did, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever.

TAKE HEART.

"Take heart, O weary, burdened one, bowed down Beneath thy cross; Remember that thy greatest gain may come Through greatest loss. Thy life is nobler for a sacrifice, And more divine. Acres of bloom are crushed to make a drop Of perfume fine.

"Because of storms that lash the ocean waves, The waters there Keep purer than if the heavens o'erhead Were always fair. The brightest banner of the skies float not At noonday warm; The rainbow traileth after thunder-clouds, And after storm .

"Thy faults are needed, lest thy weakness be Too soon forgot. God never gives his tenderest care to those Who need it not; Nor canst thou rest till thou hast labored well ; So, set for thee, Are Alpine heights to climb, ere thou canst dwell In Italy." Elizabeth Furman.