OUR WORK by Helen G. Rice

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jun 13, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 23.

OUR WORK.

By Helen G. Rice

LORD, when we pray, "Thy kingdom come!" Then fold our hands without a care For souls whom Thou hast died to save, We do but mock Thee with our prayer. Thou couldst have sent an angel band To call Thine erring children home; And thus through heavenly ministries On earth Thy kingdom might have come.

But since to human hands like ours Thou hast committed work divine, Shall not our eager hearts make haste To join their feeble powers with Thine? To word and work shall not our hands Obedient move, nor lips be dumb, Lest through our sinful love of ease, Thy kingdom should delay to come? —Helen G. Rice.