Orleans County Monitor

YOUR MISSION.
If you cannot on the ocean
Sail among the swiftest fleet,
Rocking on the highest billows,
Laughing at the storms you meet;
You can stand among the sailors,
Anchored yet within the bay,
You can lend a hand to help them
As they launch their boats away.
If you are too weak to journey
Up the mountains, steep and high,
You can glad within the valley
While the multitudes go by;
You can chant in happy measures,
As they slowly pass along:
Though they may forget the singer,
They will not forget the song.
If you have not gold and silver
Ever ready to command;
If you cannot toward the needy
Reach an ever-full and open hand;
You can visit the afflicted,
O'er the erring you can weep;
You can be a true disciple,
Sitting at the Savior's feet.
If you cannot in the conflict
Prove yourself a soldier too;
If, where fire and smoke are thickest,
There's no work for you to do;
When the battle-field is silent
You can go with silent tread,
You can bear away the wounded,
You can cover up the dead.
Do not, then, stand idly waiting
For some greater work to do;
Fortune is a lazy goddess,
She will never come to you.
Go and toil in any vineyard,
Do not fear to do and dare:
If you want a field of labor,
You can find it anywhere.