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Is It Too Much?

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 3, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 51.

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Is It Too Much?

By Worthie Harris Holden

WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN
JEHOVAH calls the house of Israel, Who in the latter days abide on earth, To greater light and blessings in its train, To greater heights of goodness to attain, And to a nobler sacrifice of worth.
The annals of the years reveal how men Gave their hearts' blood to claim a diadem; How torture, scourging, banishment, and death Ne'er won a faint recant with bated breath— So bravely stood these sons of second birth.
Not now are many called to charge the foe Or meet one mighty, grievous, dire woe; But each a covenant with God must seal By sacrifice, allegiance to reveal— A daily, hourly dwelling at the cross.
No arbitrary, barren mandate this, But fruitful, for our good and highest bliss, To purify the true and lose the dross.
Upon the altar lay thy meager all, For tribute to the Infinite too small; Cry to Gethsemane and Calvary, Is my life sacrifice too much for thee? And thou shalt ask a greater, heavier cross.