With Vision of the Holy
By Worthie Harris Holden
Suggested by Dan. 10:7, "I Daniel alone saw the vision." God wants His people to be men of vision,
E'en as the prophet saw his glorious Lord,
While fear and trembling seized upon his
comrades,
And drove them from the presence of the
Word;
Men delving deeply, not to hoard their
treasure,
But to lay up their wealth in store on
high;
Men who acknowledge all the rights of
Cæsar,
And for the truth of God would dare to
die;
Men who, amid the rivalry for homage,
Are God's own noblemen by birth and
grace;
Who, tho in reach of fame and worldly
honor,
Behold their plaudits in His smiling face.
When in the noise and din of earthly
combat,
His stalwart soldiers—loyal, steadfast,
true—
Still persevere in quest of heavenly laurels,
Alert fore'er to do as Christ would do.
These are the souls who never swerve from
duty,
Who joy the Master's mandates to fulfil,
And living thus, with vision of the Holy,
Will soon enraptured stand on Zion's hill.