p. 1 | COME TO JESUS!

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 22, 1860

"COME TO JESUS!"

SINNER lost! a voice is speaking In sweet tones of love to thee, Through thy soul's deep silence breaking With its holy melody, And each tuneful chord is waking With its echoes, "Lovest thou me!"

Hear those accents sweetly pleading, As they whisper "Come to me;" Mark that side, now freshly bleeding, See how truly, earnestly, That one voice is interceding For thy soul. 'Tis all for thee.

Thou hast hitherto neglected, In thy deep iniquity, That sweet voice; else ne'er reflected Who it was thus spake to thee; Surely thou hast oft suspected It was he who died for thee.

Mark him in his holy calling, Kneeling in Gethsemane; Note the sorrow so appalling Which he suffered there for thee, Till his sweat like blood was falling From his brow—and all for thee!

Can'st thou now, that cross reviewing, Watch his silent agony? See that saving blood imbuing With its hue th' accursed tree? By thy sins each pang renewing, When those pangs are all for thee?

Hear that cry so agonising, "Why hast thou forsaken me?" Heed that prayer so sympathizing, "Lord, forgive, they know not me!" See him whom thou art despising, Suffering, dying thus for thee.

Come to Jesus! Come believing, Come in true humility; Jesus loves to be receiving Sinners such as thou must be. Come to Jesus—he forgiving Waits to pardon all like thee. [S. S. Times.