CHRIST IN ME | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 9, 1876

“CHRIST IN ME.”

“For me to live is Christ.”—PAUL.

Let others toil from day to day In hope thereby to richer be; For one thing earnestly I pray, That, daily, Christ may be in me.

Let others toil for earthly fame, And boast an honored pedigree; May holy love my heart inflame, And, daily, I feel Christ in me.

Let others boast of hoarded wealth, And look with scorn on poverty; Better to me than all things else Is it to feel—I've Christ in me.

Let others strive for earthly power, That men may bow to them the knee; Be this my wish from hour to hour, To feel that I have Christ in me.

Let others spend in idleness Their precious time; I'll busy be, Seeking how others I may bless, Thus proving I have Christ in me.

How pleasant, then, when he shall come, To go with him 'twill be to me; To feel that Heaven is my home, Knowing that I have Christ in me.

—Sel.