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LOVEST THOU ME?

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 18, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 18, No. 4.

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"LOVEST THOU ME?"

Lovest thou me? Why doth the world allure And tempt thee with her false and fickle ways; Why dost thou cling to perils that endure, And shadow darkly all thine earthly days? Why hug ambition's phantom to thy heart, And climb o'er mammon's slippery ascent, And find thy spirit's chosen better part Beneath the lowly bending firmament?
Lovest thou me? Why in the temple's shrine, Deep in thy heart such idols do I see? Are gold, and treasure, comfort, ease supine, The fitting peers within thy soul for me? Are earthly loves, the truest, fondest, best, The only arks where thy affections hide? Where is the room within thy throbbing breast For Christ thy own Redeemer to abide?
Lovest thou me? Then gird mine armor on, And bravely hie thee to the field of life; Many have fallen in the fervid sun; It needeth warriors in the constant strife; Lift up thine eyes to Calvary's mount of grief, And view the cross blood-stained erected there; That sight shall give thy weary heart relief, And raise thee up a crown of life to wear.