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The Dead Sea

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 24, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 12.

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The Dead Sea

By Wm. P. Finney

I LOOKED upon a sea, And lo! ’twas dead, Although by Hermon’s snows And Jordan fed.
How came a fate so dire? The tale’s soon told: All that it got it kept, And fast did hold.
All tributary streams Found here their grave, Because this sea received, But never gave.
O sea that’s dead! teach me To know and feel That selfish grasp and greed My doom will seal.
And, Lord, help me my best, Myself, to give, That I may others bless, And, like thee, live.
— Wm. P. Finney.