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Title: Every life a delight
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Potts, James Henry, 1848-1942
Subjects: Conduct of life
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Abingdon Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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in distant view, Falling comrades wave adieu; Youthful faces glancing back Seem to whisper, 0 alack! Memory dreaming, let me clingTo the raptures taking wing,Flying, fading, silent, dim,Merry jokelet, song, and hymn.O, the rushing feet of Time!O, the clouded earthly clime!Memory dreaming, glancing backOer the lengthening sun-kissed track. THE MOORED BARK Dear wife, our bark is on the strand; Lifes journey nears its close;The good-night sun oer all the land Its lengthening shadows throws. 216 The Tender Affections What joy has thrilled us through the years Hard toil has been our treat:Few our repulses, jars, or fears; Our fellowship, how sweet! How dear the children of our heart, Now caring for their own!Each one pursues his chosen art, And we are left alone. Yet, sweet to dream of all the past,And gracious yet to live; No shadows oer our hearts are cast-Trie praise to God we give. But now our fragile bark is moored; The oar I lay aside;A restful voyage is assured On the eternal tide.
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DELIGHTFUL MEMORIES Every Life A Delight AN ANGELS DELIGHT What activity is there that would be delightful to an angel? Would it be a winged errand to some remote corner of theuniverse to relieve a sufferer? Would it be the bearing of a message of joy or power to someworthy aspirant for world-wide service? The late Dwight L. Moody thought that an angel would bemost delighted in coming to earth to teach some poor raggedboy, without father or mother, the way of life, to care for himand guide his footsteps into the pathway of light and heartliberty. Do angels actually do anything? Do they come to earth atall? Are they round about us? Are they interested in ourthoughts or actions? Man hath two attendant angels Ever waiting by his side,With him wheresoer he wanders, Wheresoe r his feet abide;One to warn him when he darkleth, And rebuke him if he stray;One to leave him to his nature, And so let him go his way. There is pretty good authority for saying that as surely asangels have an existen

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