A New-Year Resolution by Florence Welty Merrell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jan 2, 1913

A New-Year Resolution

By Florence Welty Merrell

“Do it all as unto Jesus, And not once as unto men.” Had you heard and had you heeded, Listened o'er and o'er again, Would you speak the word so sharply, Like an angry, poisoned dart? Would you wound another's spirit Till it made the tear-drops start?

Would the coin of thought or action Be paid back in kind for kind If in place of friend or brother Jesus stood, and read your mind? Would you gratify the turbid, Sinful impulse of the flesh If you saw the gentle Saviour Hung upon the cross afresh?

He receives this cruel treatment; ’Tis his word, as you can see: “As ’twas done to these, my brethren, Ye have done it unto me.” “Whatsoe’er ye do,” then think it, Act it, o'er and o'er again, Till all is done as unto Jesus, And not once as unto men.

Boulder, Colo.