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The Home Circle

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · May 1, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 18.

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The Home Circle.

By George A. Hamilton

GARDEN OF THE HEART.

THE heart to a garden compare, Let culture be thorough—indeed, Plant none but the choicest things there, The purest and very best seed.
Be thorough in culture,—be true; Remove all the weeds as they start, Then cherish the rain and the dew, So that you develop the heart.
Be early in culture, begin At the very first promise of spring; Delay not, nor idle,—put in The purest, best thoughts you can bring.
Dig deep through the soil,—very deep, Turn the heart to the truth and the light; Then you at the harvest may reap The reward of the faithful and right
Be thorough in culture, in deed, Remove all the weeds as they start; Plant always the heavenly seed, And this will develop the heart.
—Geo. A. Hamilton.