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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 27, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 11

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HEED THE COUNSEL OF THE WITNESS. REV. iii, 14-19.

By Mary E. Haskell

AIR.—Annie Lisle.
Down to the time of trouble We are hasting fast, When probation’s hours so precious, Will have all been past. Soon Jesus will have finished Pleading for us all;— Soon the voices of mercy slighted, Nevermore will call.
CHORUS.—Heed the counsel of the Witness, And his each command, That when he shall cease his pleading You may safely stand.
How is it with us, brethren, Are our hearts in love, One as Jesus with the Father, In the courts above? Are our garments pure, unspotted By one stain of sin, Is the seal of Jesus’ favor Stamped on all within?
CHORUS.—Heed the Witness; search you deeply; Prove yourselves; be true; And with God’s whole armor girded, In his strength go through.
Perfect, pure—no spot or wrinkle, One in Jesus’ love We must be, if we would enter In his courts above. But if not—the thought how dreadful,— We must filthy be! And in dire dismay must perish! Lost, eternally!
CHORUS.—O be zealous, O be faithful, Make your calling sure; And with God’s whole armor girded, To the end endure.
Gird you for the mighty conflict. Still the hope is given, If you heed the faithful Witness, You may enter Heaven; For the true and faithful Witness Counsels us in love, And a few brief moments waiting, Pleads for us above.
CHORUS.—Then be zealous—heed the Witness, And his each command, That when he shall cease his pleading You may safely stand.
MARY E. HASKELL.