THE TWELVE by J. J. O.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 18, 1900

THE TWELVE.

By J. J. O.

J. J. O.

(Barnesville, Ohio.)

THE SAVIOUR retired to a mountain apart, And called twelve apostles to be near his heart; That they might go with him, and gather his truth; Then as they had freely received, give it forth.

First came Simon Peter, impulsive, yet true, And with him his fisherman brother Andrew; And then from the same fisher firm came two more,— James and John left their father and nets on the shore.

Next, Philip the preacher, Bartholomew bold, Thomas the doubter, and Matthew, we're told; Then James, son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus next; And Simon Zelotes, as found in the text.

The last one was Judas Iscariot by name, Who for pieces of silver his Lord put to shame; By a kiss he betrayed him in Gethsemane — Oh, may we from greediness ever be free!