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WHICH ARE YOU?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 21, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 21.

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WHICH ARE YOU?

THERE are two kinds of people on earth to-day; Just two kinds of people; no more, I say. Not the sinner and saint; for ’tis well understood, The good are half bad, and the bad are half good.
Not the rich and the poor; for to count a man’s wealth, You must first know the state of his conscience and health; Not the humble and proud; for in life’s little span, Who puts on vain airs is not counted a man:
Not the happy and sad; for the swift-flying years Bring each man his laughter and each man his tears. No; the two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.
Wherever you go, you will find the world’s masses Are always divided into just these two classes; And oddly enough, you will find, too, I ween, There is only one lifter to twenty who lean.
In which class are you? Are you easing the load Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road? Or are you a leaner, who lets others bear His portion of labor, and worry, and care?
— Selected.