HATE NOT by J. E. Green

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 27, 1876

HATE NOT.

By J. E. Green

Why hate one another? Too short is this life To be spent in hatred, in discord, and strife; Life soon flies away “like a bird on the wing,” Like dew in the sunshine, like showers in spring.

There is no time to hate; there's no time to destroy Our pleasures by bickerings that bring us no joy. Hatred eats like a cancer; it ruins our peace; It rankles within, makes our troubles increase.

If hatred reigns in us, no sunshine we see; No music we hear, though the world's full of glee; There's naught that can lighten our pathway, or give Us happiness pure if we fail to forgive.

Our dear Saviour has told us our neighbor to love, That we may be heirs to the glory above; Should a brother do wrong, be not angry and strive, But seek from your heart to forget and forgive.

Then hate not another; in the grave's lowly bed We must sooner or later all sleep with the dead. In the great Judgment day we shall surely regret If ever we've failed to forgive and forget.

J. E. GREEN.