There Stands a Friend Outside by Ruth Evans Caldwell

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 21, 1908

There Stands a Friend Outside.

By Ruth Evans Caldwell

By Ruth Evans Caldwell.

BEHOLD, there stands a Friend outside, Who calls and knocks at thy heart's door; Pray bid Him enter to abide, Lest, grieved, He leave thee evermore.

Of princely mien is He, yet meek, With patient, loving, goodly face; The Father wills that He should seek In hearts of men abiding-place.

E'en as a stranger doth He wait, Tho oft before He's halted there; Nor hath He deemed it yet too late With all thy wilfulness to bear.

Arise and open to Him now, No longer insolent remain, Into thy heart He'll come, and thou Eternal happiness shalt gain.