WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 14, 1868

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, Whose hunger sends from door to door— Go thou, and succor him.

Thy neighbor? ’Tis that weary man, Whose years are at their brim, Bent low with sickness, cares, 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 worm, 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.