DO" AS WELL AS "SAY by Mrs. M. S. Beers

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 5, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 22.

"DO" AS WELL AS "SAY."

By Mrs. M. S. Beers

"Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say." Luke 6:46

Down from the heaven above me Comes the voice of the crucified; The day of the Lord is dawning, And he who believes must be tried; Must be weighed in the balance and proven, Whether wanting in love he be; If, by daily cross ignoring, He hath failed to show faith in me.

Faith without works is lifeless, And no fruit to my honor can bear. They who do the will of my Father, For the crucial fire prepare; Who simply obey, ne'er repining, That for fruitage they wait "many days;" Who trust for the sun's promised shining, And in "sowing" make no delays.

And God who weigheth, doth measure Not so much the results that are shown, As the love that prompts the endeavor To fulfill his behests when known. —Mrs. M. S. Beers, in Y. M. C. A. Bulletin.