ON WHAT FOUNDATION? by Sel.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 17, 1874

ON WHAT FOUNDATION?

By Sel.

On what foundation do you build, neighbor, Your hopes for the future fair? Do your walls reach down to the Rock below, And rest securely there? Sad wrecks lie around you on the sand, neighbor, The flood and the storm are near; Will the stormy blast hurl to the earth thy walls, Or bleach thy cheek with fear? On what foundation do you build, neighbor, Your hopes for the future fair? Do your walls reach down to the Rock below, And rest securely there?

On what foundation do you build, neighbor? Take heed to the Lord's commands; Ever fast and firm while storms go by, This Rock of Ages stands. Alas! what folly 'tis to build, neighbor, A mansion so fair and so grand; With its costly walls and its lofty towers On sin's delusive sand.

Then on what foundation do you build, neighbor, Your hopes for the future fair? Do your walls reach down to the Rock below, And rest securely there? —Sel.