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ON THE OTHER SIDE

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 3, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 19.

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ON THE OTHER SIDE.

We go our ways in life too much alone; We hold ourselves too far from all our kind; Too often are we deaf to sigh and moan; Too often to the weak and helpless, blind; Too often, where distress and want abide, We turn and pass upon the other side.
The other side is trodden smooth, and worn By footsteps passing idly all the day; Where lie the bruised ones who faint and mourn Is seldom more than an untrodden way. Our selfish hearts are for our feet the guide; They lead us by upon the other side.
It should be ours the oil and wine to pour Into the bleeding wounds of stricken ones; To take the smitten, and the sick and sore, And bear them where a stream of blessing runs. Instead, we look about,—the way is wide, And so we pass upon the other side.
O friends and brothers, gliding down the years, Humanity is calling each and all In tender accents, born of grief and tears! I pray you listen to the thrilling call! You cannot, in your selfishness and pride, Pass guiltless by upon the other side.