CHRIST'S LOVE by E. H. Shannon

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 15, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 39.

CHRIST'S LOVE.

By E. H. Shannon

I took my Bible up and read Where Paul came, breathing still Threat'nings and slaughter 'gainst the saints Whom he had sworn to kill; And while I seem to see the man Amid the lordly train, I turned the pages further on, And saw him once again.

Not now, as then, with pomp and power, But prouder still he saith, "I've fought the fight, I've run my course, And I have kept the faith." I pause in wonder. I may read The story o'er and o'er, And still will wonder just the same As I have done before.

If love of Jesus Christ can give Such wondrous change as this, Give me, my God, this love for thee, And let me know such bliss, That, as the evening shadows come, If lost in failing breath, I, too, may say, "I've fought the fight, And I have kept the faith." —E. H. Shannon.