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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 7, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 1.

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LIKE HIM.

By Charlotte Murray

A NEW YEAR'S WATCHWORD.

LIKE Him, our loving, living, great Example, In all things would we strive to grow this year, Nor rest, until in every word and action His perfect image shall at length appear. With earnest purpose may we each endeavor To live our life upheld by power divine, Our wills surrendered and ourselves forgotten, Our one desire—that Christ in us may shine.
Like him may we, by prayer and close communion, Walk ever in the grand eternal light, Whose rays the meanest duty can ennoble And make the very darkest way seem bright. In growing purity of mind and spirit May something heavenly in us be seen, That thus the world shall be constrained to notice That we have certainly with Jesus been.
Like him, our Saviour, may we do our utmost To bring the sinner to a throne of grace, To cheer the sorrowful, to help the weary, That earth may be a brighter, happier place. "Like him? Oh, how unlike!" we say in sorrow; Yet not in weakness would we now despair, But rather strive the more to follow fully, And once at home, we shall be like him there. —Charlotte Murray.