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I KNOW HIM NOT

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 2.

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I KNOW HIM NOT.

By C. P. A. W.

How oft we've been appalled at Peter's sin! If we within ourselves a search begin, Shall we not find there lurks a counterpart, Wherewith we're loading heavily the heart? If from the suffering, homeless ones we turn, For darkened paths no lamp of pity burn; By leaving them to their sad, dreary lot, Do we not plainly say, “I know Him not?”
If failing to refresh a thirsty foe, The joys of mercy we refused to know, If far from upright deeds we've turned away, And burdened thus anew the toiler's way, Sought not to guide the erring feet aright, Into the paths of peace and glorious light: Alas! ’twas surely then that we forgot, And of our Saviour said, “I know Him not.”
If with to-day we crowd to-morrow's care, Creating all around a fretful air; Murmuring at the hardness of our lot, As if for us our Father careth not; Where are our thoughts of that thorn-crowned Pierced, and for our souls bleeding? even now Forgetting Him who, mindful of our need, Watches in kindly love our lives to feed.
C. P. A. W.
New Bedford, June, 1868.