Be in Earnest by R. J. Foster

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 23, 1866

Be in Earnest.

By R. J. Foster

Be in earnest, Christian pilgrim, When you in the strife engage, Jesus will direct your efforts, Be you youth or be you sage.

If in earnest you continue, And are faithful to your trust, He will kindly, gently lead you, To o'ercome the vilest lust.

Be in earnest in the warfare, And the victory you shall win; Gathered with the saints unnumbered, Safe with God, and free from sin.

Be in earnest, see the glories Of the golden city bright, Without need of sun or moonbeam, For the Lamb shall be its light.

Be in earnest, Christian, earnest, All those glories thine shall be; Soon thou shalt with all the ransomed Stand upon the jasper sea.

R. J. FOSTER.

Coopersville, Mich.