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GIVE TO HIM THAT ASKETH

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 20, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 47.

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“GIVE TO HIM THAT ASKETH.”

O, stay not thy hand when the winter winds rude Blow cold through the dwellings of want and despair, To ask if misfortune has come to the good, Or folly has wrought the sad wreck that is there.
When the heart-stricken wanderer asks thee for bread, For suffering he bows to necessities' laws; When the wife moans in sickness—the children unfed; The cup must be bitter—O, ask not the cause.
When the Saviour of men raised His finger to heal, Did He ask if the sufferer was Gentile or Jew? When the thousands were fed, was the bountiful meal To be given alone to the faithful and true?
O, scan not too closely the frailties of those Whose bosoms may bleed on the cold winter's day, But give to the friendless who tells thee his woes, And from him that would borrow, O, turn not away.
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