CHRIST WANTS THE BEST

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 21, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 34.

CHRIST WANTS THE BEST.

CHRIST wants the best. He in the far-off ages Once claimed the firstling of the flock, the finest of the wheat, And still He asks His own, with gentlest pleading, To lay their highest hopes and brightest talents at His feet; He'll not forget the feeblest service humblest love; He only asks that, of our store, we give to Him The best we have.

Christ gives the best. He takes the hearts we offer, And fills them with His glorious beauty, joy, and peace, And in His service, as we're growing stronger, The calls to grand achievements still increase. The richest gifts for us on earth, or in the heavens above, Are hid in Christ. In Jesus we receive The best we 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.

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