ONLY HIS IN NAME by Mrs. M. S. Beers

Seventh-Day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 31, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 5

ONLY HIS IN NAME.

By Mrs. M. S. Beers

“I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.”—Rev. 3:1.

“A NAME that I live, and yet I am dead?” But, Master, thou canst not mean me! For the moment I heard thee call, I came, And e’er since have been loving thee.

Loving? I called thee to suffer, child, Thou hast chosen but pleasant ways; I called thee to work in my vineyard, To pleasure thou givest thy days.

To deny thyself and take up thy cross, And to follow where’er I might lead, But I walk alone through my harvest-fields, When thou knowest thy help I need.

I called you to pray, and bade you to watch, But found you sleeping, instead; While the soul of thy brother to ruin went, His blood dripping down on thy head.

Ah, unless thou repent, while I stand and knock At the door of thy selfish heart, And puttest away the love of the world, With mine thou shalt have no part.

It is only for those who overcome, To be clothed in garments white; And only for those who suffer with me, To reign in the kingdom of light.

—Mrs. M. S. Beers, in Y. M. C. A. Bulletin, Oakland.