CHRIST LOVES HIS OWN by Fannie Bolton

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 9, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 35.

CHRIST LOVES HIS OWN.

By Fannie Bolton

BY FANNIE BOLTON.

["Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them to the end." John 13:1.]

Not with a changing love the Saviour loves, Not fickle, loving us at times alone; But always his great heart-compassion moves, And to the end he loveth all his own.

"With everlasting love," he saith, "I've loved." While we were sinners for his own he died, With infinite agony his heart was proved, And in the furnace his love's gold was tried.

No grief can touch us, but it touches him; With closest pang, it wounds the heart divine. The pruner's knife that cuts the branching limb, Touches with living pain the living vine.

Closer than mother's love for her babe sweet, Closer than lover's love for one held dear, Closer than friend's or brother's, more complete Is Christ's love for his lonely followers here.