Comfort One Another by Llewellyn A. Morrison

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 6, 1904

Comfort One Another

By Llewellyn A. Morrison

There is always a new message from the Bible every morning— Counsel, precept, song, or story, laden with delight and cheer; Now it is a note of triumph, and anon a pointed warning, Then a gentle admonition or a promise, sweet and clear. Every mortal man is brother to the burden'd one beside him; Every bosom tone vibrateth unto Sorrow's minor chord; So the great Apostle speaketh as a tender heart did guide him: Wherefore comfort one another by the Word. Ah! the souls of men are weary of the shamming and the sinning— Like the restless, roaming ocean, rolling onward evermore, Tossing, turmoil, hither, thither, and the end as the beginning— Breaking, broken waves that never bring their brightness to a shore; Human hopes and earthly "Edens," sordid plans and selfish measures, Each unholy aspiration which doth purpose undergird— All are venal, false, and fleeting; Christ, alone, hath lasting pleasures; Wherefore comfort one another with His Word.

Lo! the Word unveils the finite with the Infinite behind it, Proves the purifying virtue of the poverty and strife, Shows the sacrifice that saveth, with "The Lamb of God" to bind it, Tells of wonderful salvation and of everlasting life; Teacheth how the spirit nurtured by the Spirit, apprehendeth What the eye hath never look'd on nor the ear hath ever heard, And that Heavenly Coronations, by His love, all thought transcendeth: Wherefore comfort one another with this Word. We are children of a Father with "All comfort" in His holding; Jesus is our "Elder Brother" and His blood for us He gave; While the holy Ghost, "The Comforter," each heart by Truth is moulding— So the great, triune Jehovah is omnipotent to save; He is building "Mansions" for us, if, as children, we obey Him— And the "image" and the "likeness" lost, by grace shall be restored; By loving trust and confidence we only may repay Him. Wherefore comfort one another with His Word.

—Toronto, Can.