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Vanity in the House of Prayer

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Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Oct 2, 1855

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 7.

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Vanity in the House of Prayer

By Moore

From Moore's St. Chrysostom.

WHY come ye to the house of prayer, With jewels in your braided hair? And wherefore is the house of God, By glittering feet profanely trod; As if, vain things, ye come to keep Some festival, and not to weep? Oh! prostrate weep before the Lord Of earth and heaven, of life and death— Who blights the fairest with a word, And blasts the mightiest with a breath! Go! 'tis not thus, in bright array, Such sinful souls would dare to pray. Vainly to anger'd Heaven ye raise Luxurious hands where diamonds blaze; And she who comes in broidered veil, To weep her frailty, still is frail.