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John or Judas?

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 21, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 24.

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John or Judas?

By Elizabeth Rosser

By Elizabeth Rosser
THE voice that called the gentle John To leave his finny spoil, Called Judas with the same clear tone To quit his daily toil, And walk beside the Son of God, As He the path of sorrow trod.
They saw Him heal the sick, the lame, Give sight to blinded eyes, Cleanse weary hearts from sin and shame, And bid the dead arise. Side by side with Christ they walked, Daily with the Saviour talked.
John's heart drank in the Saviour's word, Expanding like a flower; Judas the same sweet pleading heard, Resisting all its power, John purer, whiter grew alway; Judas, more hardened day by day.
So Judas farther from Him strayed; John closer pressed beside. Judas his Lord to death betrayed; John for his Master died. John to heaven's heights shall soar; Judas, perish evermore.
O, solemn thought! that life and death In the same Word are borne,— Life to those who hear in faith, Death to those who scorn. Lord, let me well this question con: Am I a Judas, or a John?