We search the world for truth. We cull The good, the true, the beautiful, From graven stone and written scroll, And all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read. […]
If Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two, If He came unexpectedly, I wonder what you’d do. Oh, I know you’d give your nicest room to such an honored Guest, And all the food you’d serve to Him would be the very best— And you would keep assuring Him you’re glad […]
Jesus! and shall it ever be, A mortal man ashamed of Thee? Ashamed of Thee, whom angels praise, Whose glories shine thro’ endless days! Ashamed of Jesus! sooner far Let evening blush to own a star; He sheds the beams of light divine O’er this benighted soul of mine. Ashamed of Jesus! that dear Friend […]
Jehovah saith no more; the voice of God hath ceased. No more by vision or by dream, by prophet or by priest, By ephod or by teraphim, by angel or by star, By altar or by sacrifice, He speaketh from afar. No more—He saith no more; the silent heavens wait; The silent angels keep their […]
So let our lips and lives express The holy Gospel we profess, So let our words and virtues shine To prove the doctrine all divine. —Author Unknown […]
My soul, amid this stormy world, Is like some flutter’d dove, And fain would be as swift of wing To flee to Him I love. The cords that bound my heart to earth Are broken by His hand; Before His cross I found myself A stranger in the land. My heart is with Him on […]
Am I a stone, and not a sheep, That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross, To number drop by drop Thy Blood’s slow loss, And yet not weep? Not so those women loved Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee; Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly; Not so the thief was moved; Not so […]
I paused last eve beside the blacksmith’s door, And heard the anvil ring, the vesper’s chime, And looking in I saw upon the floor Old hammers, worn with beating years of time. “How many anvils have you had?” said I, “To wear and batter all these hammers so?” “Just one,” he answered. Then with twinkling […]
Oh, there’s many a thorn in the Jesus-way, Many a thorn, I know; There is grief and loss and the pain of the cross Wherever my feet may go. But the Lord will heal all the wounds I feel, When the thorns have pricked me sore, And He’s planted a rose where the brier grows, […]