IF HE SHOULD COME by Thomas Gregory

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 13, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 15.

IF HE SHOULD COME.

By Thomas Gregory

BY THOMAS GREGORY.

If He should come to-day He'd find The sheep on the hills away Where the wind, In the sleet and the biting rain grows cold. He would hear far up on the mountains high The fierce wolves draw to the lost lambs' cry. If He should come to-day He'd find The shepherd asleep by the empty fold.

If He should come to-day He'd see Out on the broad highway— Out in the Harvest standing white—and there He'd greet, No laborers gathering in the sheaves, And vineyard toilers bringing only leaves. If He should come to-day He'd see The sickles rusting in the golden wheat.

If He should come to-day He'd hear, In where the priesthood pray, The mobs cheer The temple-loungers mocking Him; and them, The money-changers, wrangling o'er their weights, The evil ones He once scourged from His gates, If He should come to-day He'd hear Again the Pharisees of dead Jerusalem.

If He should come to-day He'd see But few who hear Him say: "Follow Me. Confess My name. The watch arise and keep With Me." They sleep now in the twilight dim, And He hears the Peters denying Him.

If He should come to-day He'd see No crosses borne up dark Golgotha's steep.

If He should come to-day He'd find, Waiting the silver-gray Dawn behind The hills, few listeners for the call; few Passing bowed beneath the chastening rod— The purified in heart that shall see God.

If He should come to-day He'd find Few in the world's high-seats He ever knew.

Spokane, Wash.