Burning truths from Billy's bat

Chapter 18: GATHERING UP THE SUNBEAMS.

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A compact collection of sermons, anecdotes, prayers, and terse sayings built around a dramatic conversion account and practical moral instruction. The pieces address family and motherhood, courtship and marriage, social amusements such as dancing, gambling, and theatre, and critiques of hypocrisy, spiritualism, and nominal religion. Interwoven are vivid recollections, Bible exposition, exhortations to repentance and steadfast faith, and homiletic advice for personal conduct and public testimony. The material favors direct, anecdotal argumentation intended to move listeners toward moral reform and committed Christian practice.

GATHERING UP THE SUNBEAMS.

“If we knew the baby fingers pressed against the window pane,

Would be cold and still tomorrow, never trouble us again,

Would the bright eyes of our darling catch the frown upon our brow?

Would the prints of little fingers vex us then as they do now?

Let us gather up the sunbeams lying all around our path,

Let us keep the wheat and roses, casting out the thorns and chaff!

We shall find our sweetest comforts in the blessings of today, and

With patient hand removing all the briers from our way.”