If Christ Should Come To-night?
By Grace Babcock
If Christ should come to-night, what would you say?
If he should ask you if some soul you’d won
To follow him rejoicing all the way?
Or if he’d ask what you for him had done
To show him which you here have loved the more,
The pleasures of this sinful world below,
Or joys which shall be found on that blest shore,
In that bright home to which his servants go?
Dear friend, what would you say? If Christ should come to-night, would you rejoice?
Would your whole soul, filled with a sweet delight,
Be thrilled with joy at the dear Saviour’s voice;
And rapture find in that sweet face so bright?
Could you look up with every sin confessed;
With every wrong or thoughtless word made right?
And in his presence feel supremely blest,
Your garments by his cleansing blood made white?
Dear one, could you rejoice? Soon Christ in all his brightness we shall see.
Will you among his ransomed ones there sing,
“This is our Lord; we’ve waited long for thee”?
Waited till from the grave his saints he’ll bring
To meet the living ones who watch and pray.
If you’ve not learned the way up to the golden gate,
O, wait not till you hear the trump in that last day,
Or you will hear the solemn words, “Too late.”
Dear one, come now, to-day.