Our Neighbors by Mrs. E. E. Williams

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 15, 1902

Our Neighbors

By Mrs. E. E. Williams

Somebody near you is struggling alone Over life's desert sand; Faith, hope, and courage together are gone: Reach him a helping hand. Turn on his darkness a beam of your light; Kindle, to guide him, a beacon-fire bright; Cheer his discouragement; soothe his affright; Lovingly help him to stand.

Somebody near you is hungry and cold; Send him some aid to-day. Somebody near you is feeble and old, Left without human stay: Under his burdens put hands kind and strong; Speak to him tenderly, sing him a song; Haste to do something to help him along Over his weary way.

Who are our neighbors? Look up and behold, Pressing on every hand, Little ones, lonely ones, sad ones and old; Everywhere see them stand. He is our neighbor whom we can befriend, He to whom comfort or aid we can lend, Or he whose footsteps we may cause to wend Toward the heavenly land.

Dear ones, be busy; for time fleeth fast, Soon it will all be gone; Soon will our season of service be past; Soon will our day be done. Somebody near you needs now a kind word; Some one needs help such as you can afford: Haste to assist in the name of the Lord, There may be a soul to be won.

— Mrs. E. E. Williams.