Believe Not Those Who Say

Believe not those who say

The up­ward path is smooth

Lest thou should stum­ble in the way

And faint be­fore the truth.

It is the on­ly road

Unto the realms of joy;

But he who seeks that blest abode

Must all his pow­ers em­ploy.

To la­bor and to love

To par­don and en­dure

To lift thy heart to God above

And keep thy con­sci­ence pure.

Be this thy con­stant aim

Thy hope

thy chief de­light

That mat­ter who should whis­per blame

Or how should scorn or slight.

What mat­ters—if God ap­prove

And if with­in thy breast

Thou feel the com­fort of His love

The earn­est of His rest?