The Home Circle | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 22, 1879

The Home Circle.

THE golden precepts of our God, The thorny path our Christ has trod, Seem meant for other men.

The pulpit in its eloquence, Feels every word that drops from thence, Is meant for other men.

The sins it sees, the crimes unseen, The outcast soul, the wretched mean, Are all of other men.

And so from pulpit down it goes, The list of sins our paper shows Are deeds of other men.

And all good Christians as they read, Rest safely in their chosen creed, And sigh for other men.

"God save these souls; but as to ours, We do not feel the threat'ning powers That conquer other men."

And yet, oh, reader, search your heart, And see how little 'tis apart, From those of other men;

How much of strength is due to chance, The happening of a circumstance To you and other men.

In prosperous days you fear no fall, But fickle fortune changes all For you and other men.

Oh, how much better would it be, If you could only—only see Yourself as other men. —Sel.