p. 262 | The Home Circle

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 28, 1879

The Home Circle.

LIKE Jesus I will strive to be, For that's the highest duty; That has the greatest charm for me, And that the greatest beauty.

Embroidered robes and beauty's hues, Attractive form and feature, Are all surpassed in those who choose The Saviour for their teacher.

I'll sit and sweetly learn of him, Of him the meek and lowly; Better than charms of face and limb, A life that's true and holy.

His robe of righteousness I'll wear, That pattern is the fairest; No raiment can with this compare, The richest and the rarest.

His grace shall fill my heart with love, A love that's always beaming; His light shine on me from above, A light that's always gleaming.

His smile shall fall upon my face, And by his Spirit directed, The glory from his holy place, Shall be by me reflected.

Jesus, my Life, my Truth, my Way, Shall order my behavior; To live, to speak, to walk, for aye, Just like my Lord and Saviour.

Like him I would be good and kind, In love with truth and duty; His noble, patient, spotless mind, Is pure and perfect beauty.

I ask no gems or costly dress, No earthly charms I covet; Only his likeness to possess, To do his will and love it.

"Our Father" loves the dutiful, And from his throne he sees us, And smiles and calls us "beautiful," When we resemble Jesus.

This inward beauty can not die, This glory fadeth never, Who live like Jesus shall, on high, Be beautiful forever.

—Christian at Work.