Our Response by R. F. C.

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 31, 1878

Our Response.

By R. F. C.

"Is this the kind return? Are these the thanks we owe? Thus to abuse eternal Love, Whence all our blessings flow!" The choicest gift of love, God's well-beloved Son, Descended from the throne above, For those by sin undone. Himself for us he gave, Endured our grief and pain; He died to raise us from the grave, With him to live and reign. And shall we spurn his grace, Still choose our evil ways? From love embodied turn our face, From him withhold just praise? Shall love like this awake In us no heart-felt praise? Shall he thus suffer for our sake, And we despise his grace? Melt, melt, this heart of stone, Love's flame begin to burn; Let heart and life be his alone— Yet what a poor return!"