THE SINNER'S FRIEND by Thirza M. Foster

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 10, 1876

THE SINNER'S FRIEND.

By Thirza M. Foster

Though all defiled with sin, Christ’s blood can make us clean, If but applied. Here is salvation free For all that come, saith he, O, humbly look and see, My wounded side.

Now to our Lord and King, Loud anthems will we sing, ’Tis but his due. On him our sins were laid, For us he was betrayed, And thus an offering made, For me and you.

Then let our souls rejoice, At the Almighty’s voice, Which bade us live; Who from his throne on high, Looked down with pitying eye On rebels doomed to die, And said, Believe.

Now faith within the heart Bids all our fears depart, And says, Obey. God’s holy law fulfill, And soon the angels will To Zion’s radiant hill Bear us away.

Christ, once the sinner’s Friend, Is coming soon again, But not to die. He comes that he may take, Through Salem’s pearly gate, Those who in patience wait Their home on high.

THIRZA M. FOSTER.

Vienna, Wis.