Thorns and Pearls

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 1, 1877

Thorns and Pearls.

On Judea's sacred mountains Roamed a royal Prince of old. There he scattered pearls of kindness, Gifts more precious far than gold.

While the halt, the sick, the dying, Sought his aid to soothe their pain, There this Prince, so good and noble, Gave them life and health again.

He beheld the poor and lowly, And his warm heart yearned for them; While the rich, the proud, the lordly, Made of thorns his diadem.

Thus in every day and nation, Those who are God's suffering poor, Find for them the thorns are platted, And the cross is at their door.

But within that glorious kingdom, Where truth ne'er her banner furls, There the cross receives its crowning, And the thorns are turned to pearls.