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WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 29, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 1.

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WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?

Thy neighbor? It is he whom thou Hast power to aid and bless; Whose aching heart or burning brow Thy soothing hand may press.
Thy neighbor? ’Tis the fainting poor Whose eye with want is dim, Whom hunger sends from door to door— Go thou and succor him!
Thy neighbor? ’Tis that weary man Whose years are at the brim; Bent low with sickness, care and pain— Go thou and comfort him!
Thy neighbor? ’Tis the heart bereft Of every earthly gem; Widow and orphan, helpless left— Go thou and shelter them!
Thy neighbor? Yonder toiling slave, Fettered in thought and limb, Whose hopes are all beyond the grave— Go thou and ransom him!
Whene’er thou meet’st a human form, Less favored than thine own, Remember ’tis thy neighbor born, Thy brother or thy son.
Oh, pass not, pass not heedless by! Perhaps thou canst redeem The breaking heart from misery— Go share thy lot with him.