THE WITNESS | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 17, 1857

THE WITNESS.

“THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS.”

FAITHFUL and true! oh, awful thought, That every deed in secret wrought, Each sinful feeling, angry word, The faithful Witness shall record.

Unknown to men, some motive base Our fairest actions may deface, But nought escape His piercing eye— Faithful and true he cannot lie.

Amid a thousand fancies vain, How few false memory can retain, But nought except His boundless grace, His faithful record can efface.

But yet to loving hearts and meek, Those words in tones of comfort speak, The hidden life that shrinks from view, One faithful Witness has and true.

The open sin the world may see, He knows the contrite agony, Though tempted oft, we often fall, He knows our love, for He knows all.

The loving labor done for Him May grow in failing memory dim, But still each cup of water given, One faithful Witness has in heaven.

Thou knowest me, Lord, by sin defiled, Yet hoping to be called thy child, Yet trusting, clinging to the cross, And counting all things else but loss.

Oh! by the blood shed there for me, May I among thy ransomed be; Then seated on thy judgment throne, Bear witness that I am thine own.—Sel.