SHINE JUST WHERE YOU ARE

New Zealand Tablet, 9 December 1909, Page 1957

SHINE JUST WHERE YOU ARE

-Ddn'.i ;w"a'ste"your time in'iongm^/^'"''.". '' - !" For^Brigttt; impossible things!).. vDon't"sit' lsupinely I 'yearning For the swiftness of angel wings: Ron't, spurn ,tqjbe a >', J r°;. Because %bu are ntftta^ star* 7-r f "■' ;B t ut brighten' some bit 36tf:darkriess"- * ' - By~shiining just where you are. There is need of the tiniest candle, As well'as the garish sun; - ; ; The humblest deed is ennobled When it is worthily done; ''< ,-r-Ypu mayr never be .called to-brighten The'darkened regions afar; , So fill, for the day, your mission >-;• -"<- By shining just where yo\V. are. "Just'wLere you are", my pr other, Just where God bids you stand, Though down in -the deepest shadow, ' Instead of the sunlit land;' You may carry a brightness with you That no gloom or darkness can. mar, For the light of a Christlike spirit , Will be shining, wherever you are.