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COME, GO TO THE SHOW

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 28, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 6.

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COME, GO TO THE SHOW.

By I. K. L.

A SNARE OF SATAN.

“Let’s go to the fair—they’ll all be there— The young and old, and the maiden fair; The streets are lined! just see them go! Come! come away, let’s go to the show.”
I must forbear, I can’t go there, Though all the town attend the fair; ’Tis worldly pleasure, pomp and show; A snare of Satan, I dare not go.
“Yes, ’go to the fair, nought can compare With the splendid sights they offer there; Such things indeed, all ought to know, Come, don’t be a fogy, let’s go to the show.”
Those splendid views, so rich and fair, Will vanish soon like empty air, With all who feast on such vain show; There’s danger there, I dare not go.
“Come, go to the fair, the priest goes there, And meets with smiles and special care; Besides, near all his flock will go, Why scruple then, let’s go to the show.”
The priest is there; but will he dare To say this world is false, though fair? If so, and still persists to go, He’s caught in the snare, and bound to woe.
“Come, go to the fair, how can you dare To think that you’re so good and rare; When preacher, deacon, and church can go, Are you too good to go to the show?”
Through grace, I would be good and rare, And ever live for another fair, Where all the world in tears will go; Say, Are you ready for this solemn show?
Are you ready to meet that fearful day, When Heaven and earth shall pass away? For ready or not, you’ll have to go, And you’d better prepare for that solemn show.
I. K. L.—in World's Crisis.