LIFE AND DEATH by Ernest H. Crosby

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 30, 1902

LIFE AND DEATH.

By Ernest H. Crosby

[Ernest H. Crosby, in Conservator.]

So he dies for his faith. That is fine— More than most of us do. But say, can you add to that line That he lived for it too?

In his death he bore witness at last As a martyr to truth. Did his life do the same in the past From the days of his youth?

It is easy to die. Men have died For a wish or a whim— From bravado or passion or pride. Was it harder for him?

But to live—every day to live out All the truth that he dreamt, While his friends met his conduct with doubt And the world with contempt.

Was it thus that he plodded ahead, Never turning aside? Then we'll talk of the life that he led Never mind how he died.