Who Is My Neighbor?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 19, 1908

THY neighbor?—It is he whom thou Hast power to aid and bless, Whose aching heart or burning brow Thy soothing hand may press.

Thy neighbor?—’Tis the fainting poor, Whose eye with want is dim, Whom hunger sends from door to door: Go thou, and succor him,

Thy neighbor?—’Tis that weary man, Whose years are at their brim, Bent low with sickness, cares, and pain: Go thou, and comfort him.

Thy neighbor?—’Tis the heart bereft Of every earthly gem; Widow and orphan, helpless left: Go thou, and shelter them.

Thy neighbor?—Yonder toiling slave, Fettered in thought and limb, Whose hopes are all beyond the grave: Go thou, and ransom him.

Where’er thou meetest a human form Less favored than thine own, Remember he thy neighbor is, Give bread instead of stone.

O, pass not, pass not heedless by; Perhaps thou canst redeem The breaking heart from misery: Go share thy lot with him.

—Anon.