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The Other Side: A Poem on Compassion

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 16, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 42.

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The Other Side: A Poem on Compassion

WE go our ways in life too much alone; We hold ourselves too far from all our kind; Too often we are dead to sigh and moan; Too often to the weak and helpless blind; Too often, where distress and want abide, We turn, and pass upon the other side.
It should be ours the oil and wine to pour Into the bleeding wounds of stricken ones; To take the smitten and the sick and sore, And bear them where a stream of blessing runs. Instead we look about—the way is wide, And so we pass upon the other side. — Selected.