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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 2.

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A THANKFUL HEART.

METHINKS of all the sins that pierce the heart of Christ anew, And once again in bitterness bring Calvary to view, That in those hands and feet again the nail-prints deep impress, The blackest is the loveless sin of dark unthankfulness.
A grudging soul that counts its sorrows, weighing, one by one, The pains it bears, the tears it sheds, the work that it hath done; That thanks its God, perchance, because it has a patient mind, And for its crowning grace desires a spirit well resigned.
Resigned! that Christ has died for thee upon the shameful tree; Resigned! that still he lives and pleads in Heaven's high court for thee; Resigned! that he hath willed to thee his nature to impart, And that for thee undying love burns in his human heart!
Oh, sin against the love of Christ, of all the sins that are, Methinks that this in Heaven must move the greatest sorrow far; Must make the soul of Christ to grieve, and angels' eyes grow dim At sight of all he does for us, and the naught we do for him. —Standard.