If trials come to me to-day
To lead my wandering feet astray,
With enemies on every hand;
If sickness comes to lay me low,
And if the way I do not know,
Will I be able then to stand?
If there should come a call to work,
A call I do not care to shirk,
Would I the voice of duty know?
If to a foreign field He send,
Mayhap to witness to the end,
O will I answer Him, 'I go'?
And if the day of God should dawn—
Probation closed and mercy gone,—
And judgment pass upon all men;
If He should make His glory known
And Jesus come to save His own,
Would I be ready for Him then?
My soul, be ready for His call,
To Him surrendering thine all,
Come from thy choosing life or death,
For when the foes of life assail
Naught else for saving will avail
But faith in Him of Nazareth.