Ye Have Done It unto Me
By Ernest F. Johnstone
By Ernest F. Johnstone, LL.M. Have you spoken words of comfort to the weary
and distressed?
Have you hastened to the rescue of the tempted
and oppressed?
Have you fed a hungry brother, sorely pressed
by poverty?
If you have, then, brother, listen—ye have done
it unto Me. Have you given to the thirsty that with which to
quench his thirst?
Have you taken in the stranger, oft, perhaps, by
others cursed?
Have you helped to clothe the naked? Have you
gone the sick to see?
If you have, then, brother, listen—ye have done
it unto Me. Have you visited the prison, where, confined in
gloomy cell,
Sits a helpless, sentenced brother, soon to bid the
world farewell?
Have you loved him, really loved him, as a
brother, fervently?
If you have, then, brother, listen—ye have done
it unto Me. O, away with form and fashion, pride, and every
sinful thing.
Let us seek Love's lovely gospel to the sons of
men to bring.
Let us seek to raise the wretched, wheresoever
they may be.
Let us hear the Saviour saying, “Ye have done
it unto Me.” And while we are recommending Him to any err-
ing soul,
While we tell men of a Saviour who will make
the sinner whole,
While we tell men of a Saviour who will set the
vilest free,
Let us say, and say it truly, He has done it
unto me.