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WILL A MAN ROB GOD?

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

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 8.

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WILL A MAN ROB GOD?

By Julia A. Williams

[Julia A. Williams, in The Word and The Way.]
O BROTHER, dare thou, then, to take Upon thy lips that sacred Name? Dare come to Him when sorrows break In whelming floods? Hast thou no shame To plead for grace to bear all things, For faith that mountains will remove— Draughts from the Fount that ceaseless springs, The Bread that cometh from above?
Dare ask all this, and have no thought Wherein thou canst make small return To Him whose precious life-blood bought Each gift for which thy soul doth yearn? Thy words of praise are sweet to Him; Thy tears are precious in His sight; But tho thine eyes be ever dim— Tho songs of praise rise day and night— 'Tis not enough. Bring thou, this day, The tithe, the tenth of all thou hast, And off’ring, that thou mayest repay The debt thou owest God, at last.
Would’st know where He is found? O, see This homeless child, pleading for bread, For love, for care! Hear thou its plea? Then list to what thy Lord hath said: “Ye fed this little one; ’twas Me Ye clothed and cared for; ’twas your Lord.”
O brother, not alone shall be Eternal life thy great reward; But even now our God has willed Heaven’s windows wide shall opened be; Thy barn and storehouse shall be filled, And every fruitful vine and tree! Withhold not what is not thine own, My brother; bring thy gift, I pray, Lest thou shalt hear the orphan’s moan, And see its tears on that great day.