WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? by Clara Moose

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 17, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 38.

WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?

By Clara Moose

[Clara Moose, in Pentecost Herald.]

In a world so full of sorrow, Caused by sin’s revengeful hate, Where, with sighs and groans, the millions Still their wants and woes relate; Tell me, ye who have the power, That would help another through, And could lighten up their burdens, What would Jesus do?

You who have your hoarded thousands Waiting for a rainy day, Can you hear the hungry pleading And their anguish turn away? If ’twere He who loves the helpless, To their pleadings always true, Tell me, stewards of God’s money, What would Jesus do?

When you see the souls around you Ruined by the blight of sin, Groping on in densest darkness, With no hope of joy within, Can you sit in ease and pleasure, Waste your time and talents too? Tell me, you who know a Saviour, What would Jesus do?

Thousands now are rushing hellward In a maddened race with death; Shall we not arouse to save them With our talents, time, and wealth? Let us call on God to help us And again our strength renew, Ask ourselves once more the question, What would Jesus do?

Would He not to those benighted Stretch His hand to save from sin, Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, Bid each wanderer come in? Tell me, all ye hosts of heaven, And ye saints the ages through Echo back to earth from glory, What our Christ would do.