Be Free by E. W. Darling

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 23, 1864

Be Free.

By E. W. Darling

"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." John viii, 36.

BEWARE that the freedom that Jesus once gave thee, The blood-purchased freedom, thou dost not resign, To man or to passion, or any usurper— Beware lest their meshes around thee entwine.

For, ever insidious, the influence of evil, Keeps urging approaches where least we expect, Like snares that surround us before we take warning; And naught but a Saviour's kind care can protect.

Then follow thy Saviour and keep his injunction, To watch and to pray lest temptation should come, Stand firm in thy freedom, stand free from pollution, And so shall thou safely arrive at thy home.

E. W. Darling.