DEEDS, NOT WORDS | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 21, 1868

DEEDS, NOT WORDS.

"Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"

Nor forever on thy knees Would Jehovah have thee found: There are burdens thou canst ease; There are griefs Jehovah sees: Look around.

Work is prayer if done for God, Prayer which God delighted hears. See beside yon upturned sod One bowed 'neath affliction's rod; Dry her tears.

Not long prayers, but earnest zeal— This is what is wanted more. Put your shoulder to the wheel; Bread unto the famished deal From thy store.

Not high-sounding words of praise Does God want, 'neath some grand dome; But that thou the fallen raise; Bring the poor from life's highways To thy home.

Worship God by doing good— Works, not words; kind acts, not creeds. He who loves God as he should Makes his heart's love understood By kind deeds.

Deeds are powerful; mere words weak, Batt'ring at high Heaven's door. Let thy love by actions speak; Wipe the tear from sorrow's cheek; Clothe the poor.

Be it thine life's cares to smother, And to brighten eyes now dim. Kind deeds done to one another God accepts as done, my brother, Unto Him.