LIFT HIM UP by Hope Onslow

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jun 7, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 23.

LIFT HIM UP.

By Hope Onslow

Lift Him up, creation's Author, He who spoke the worlds in space, He whose word upholds the planets, Neath the glory of His face. As the matchless Master-artist Who has tinted flower and skies, Who has filled the earth with beauty, Lift Him up before our eyes.

Lift Him up; for His outgoings As the morning shall unfold, With a hint of coming glory, Ere the shining of the gold. As the morning's rose and purple Flushes softly in the east, So there comes the premonition Of the coming of our Priest.

Lift Him up, His throne's uplifted, And as "terrible crystal" shines, And His train fills all the temple With a glory none divines. In the Father's bosom dwelling, Loved as One of infinite worth, Yet He left adoring angels For the anguish-paths of earth.

For His love for us, O wonder! Heaven could not His feet retain. He must come to dwell with mourners In their fallen state of pain. Step by step in wo and sorrow, Down humiliation's path, Trod the Matchless, with bare bosom, For sin's anguish and hate's wrath.

Sightless eyes received their vision, Sick and poor and lost had part In His gracious ministration; For He healed the broken heart, Took the children to His bosom, Toiled among the poor and low, Left a path of shining footprints In the way our feet should go.

Through Gethsemane's night of anguish Lo, behold Him weep in blood, As He stays by infinite loving Hell's black overpowering flood. There to save the fallen creature, He must drain the bitter cup. To the dregs He drank the chalice. Shall we then not lift Him up?

Lift Him up; for He was lifted On the cross of Calvary. Shame and spitting were His portion, Curse and bitter mockery. Heaven's joy and heaven's glory Met such shame for thee and me. Can we then withhold the story Of the Lamb of Calvary?

Lift Him up, and He has promised, That if lifted He will draw. Heaven and earth shall feel the magnet,— Feel the influence of love's law. He who lifts Him up mid mortals— Lifts Him up in love alone— Shall be robed and crowned in heaven, And shall share His lifted throne. Hope Onslow.