DID YOU EVER THINK? by L. D. Santee

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 24, 1914

DID YOU EVER THINK?

By L. D. Santee

By L. D. SANTEE

DID you ever think what this world would be If Christ hadn't come to save it? His hands and feet were nailed to the tree, And His precious life—He gave it. But countless hearts would break with grief At the hopeless life they were given, If God had not sent the world relief, If Jesus had stayed in heaven.

Did you ever think what this world would be With never a life hereafter? Despair in the faces of all we'd see, And sobbing instead of laughter. In vain is beauty and flower's bloom, To remove the heart's dejection, Since all would drift to a yawning tomb, With never a resurrection.

*"For we have seen His star in the east, and are come to worship Him."

Did you ever think what this world would be, How weary of all endeavor, If the dead unnumbered in land and sea, Would just sleep on forever? Only a pall over hill and plain, And the brightest hours are dreary, Where the heart is sad, and hopes are vain, And life is sad and weary.

Did you ever think what this world would be If Christ had stayed in heaven, No home in bliss, no soul set free, No life, or sins forgiven? But He came with a heart of tenderest love, And now from on high He sees us, And mercy comes from the throne above. Thank God for the gift of Jesus.