THE CHRISTIAN'S BURDEN by Mrs. J. B. Goldsborough

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 27, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 39.

THE CHRISTIAN'S BURDEN.

By Mrs. J. B. Goldsborough

TAKE up the Christian's burden; Leave kindred, home, and land; Renounce the world for Jesus; Move on at His command, Tho friendless fields you enter May yield no sheaves of grain, And all your sturdy efforts Seem futile—wrought in vain.

Take up the Christian's burden; Bid war and carnage cease; Hold up the Lord our Saviour, Exalt the "Prince of Peace." Show Christ, by all you suffer; The truth, the way you live. Lay self upon the altar, With all of yours to give.

Take up the Christian's burden; Tell kings, and popes, and peers You bear to them a message, From Him who rules the spheres. Rebuke their lawless worship, And prove, as Christ you preach, The God who wrought creation Bears witness as you teach.

Take up the world's last burden; The threefold message bear. Bid every tribe and nation For wondrous things prepare. Show fearful signs foretelling The closing time of grace. Set every soul in order— The Search-light comes apace.

Take up the Christian's burden; Go work where there is need. Unbind the heavy-ladened; The worn and hungry feed. Announce the coming kingdom, Where righteousness shall reign; For that in our generation Our Saviour comes again.

MRS. J. B. GOLDSBOROUGH. Minneapolis, Minn.