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What Is Man?

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 20, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 34.

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What Is Man?

By O. P. WILSON

O. P. WILSON
Man lieth down and riseth not Until his change shall come; His thoughts do perish, and his eyes No more this earth shall roam; He hath no love within his breast; His sons he cannot see,— Then why is he so careless here About the “life to be”?
Yea, what is man that he should tell What life on earth will bring? He cometh forth and soon is gone, Just as the flowers of spring; A shadow only is his life, That cometh soon to flee; “But as he thinketh in his heart,” That kind of man is he.
Yet there is hope for every man, And glory for his clay; This hope is true as is the light That cometh with the day; For Christ, our life, hath conquered all; A man on earth was he: O Death, where is thy cruel sting? O Grave, thy victory?