WHAT WOULD HE SAY?

Pacific Press Publishing Association

WHAT would He say, If Christ should come on earth again, After long centuries have rolled away, Since last He judged the hearts of men?

What would He say, To find unconquered, and the same Wild passions have their fatal sway, As when He bore the cross in shame?

What would He say, To see the nations armed for war, With battle-ships in stern array, As in the blood-stained years of yore?

What would He say, To know the maddening greed for gain, And grasping hands that none can stay, Still rule the human heart and brain?

What would He say, To hear that gold can garnish crimes, Where timid virtue fears to stay, Like Sodom in her direful times?

What would He say, To learn of stealthy bribes and fraud, As in the time of Rome's decay, Defying right and law and God?

What would He say Of him who gains the poor man's mite By lying lips—then dares to pray, As tho his God were far from sight?

What would He say Of those whose hidden guilt profanes The altar where they deign to lay Their hearts, where vengeance yet remains?

What would He say Of those who think that money's power Can drive the curse of sin away— The coward creatures of an hour?

What would He say Of men whose pilfered gold is given With vulgar pride, from day to day, In vain, to bribe the court of heaven?

What would He say In judgment that His words sublime By impious hands are thrown away, Tho echoing down the aisles of Time?

—Presbyterian.