Give Christ the Best

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 10, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 37.

Give Christ the Best.

Give Christ the best! O young men strong and eager, And conscious of your own abounding life, Ready to throw your soul’s fresh, growing powers Into some noble cause or lower strife. Christ Jesus was a young man, strong and brave; Give Him your heart’s allegiance, give to Him The best you have.

And you in whom the same young life is throbbing, But with a steadier pulse and gentler flow, Whose hearts were made for sacrifice and loving, Whose souls’ ideals grow with you as you grow; O, give to Christ your first, most sacred love, And of your heart’s devotion give to Him The best you have.

And is our best too much? O friends let us remember How once our Lord poured out His soul for us, And in the prime of His mysterious manhood Gave up His precious life upon the cross; The Lord of lords, by whom the worlds were made, Through bitter grief and tears gave us The best He had.

—Anon.