This Same Jesus

This Same Jesus This same Jesus!’ Oh! how sweetlyFall those words upon the ear,Like as well of far off music,In a nightwatch still and drear! He who healed the hopeless leper,He who dried the widow’s tear;He who changed to health and gladnessHelpless suffering, trembling fear; He who wandered, poor and homeless,By the stormy Galilee;He who […]

I Gave My Life for Thee

I Gave My Life for Thee I gave My life for thee, Gal 2:20My precious blood I shed, 1 Pet. 1:19That thou might’st ransomed be, Eph 1:7And quickened from the dead Eph 2:10I gave My life for thee; Tit. 2:14What hast thou given for Me John 21:15-17 I spent long years for thee 1Tim 1:15In […]

Bonnie Wee Eric

Bonnie Wee Eric Bonnie wee Eric!  I have sat beside the evening fire,And listened to the leaping flame still darting keenly higher, Bonnie wee Eric!  I have sat beside the evening fire,And listened to the leaping flame still darting keenly higher,And all the while a lisping voice and eyes of sunny blueOut-whispered the flame-whisper, and […]

“Now I See”

“Now I See” “Now I see!”  But not the partingOf the melting earth and sky, “Now I see!”  But not the partingOf the melting earth and sky,Not a vision dread and startling,Forcing one despairing cry.But I see the solemn saying,All have sinned and all must die,Holy precepts disobeying,Guilty all the world must lie.Bending, silenced, to […]

“A Great Mystery”

“A Great Mystery” There is a hush in earth and sky, The ear is free to list aright There is a hush in earth and sky, The ear is free to list aright In darkness, veiling from the eye The many-colored spells of light. Not heralded by fire and storm, In shadowy outline dimly seen, […]

God’s Message:

God’s Message: To Him That Is Far Off Peace, Peace!To Him That Is Far Off Peace, Peace!To him that is far away.Turn, O wanderer!  why wilt thou die,When the peace is made that shall bring theenigh?Listen, O rebel!  the heralds proclaimThe King’s own peace through a Saviour’sname:Then yield thee to-day. Peace, peace!The word of the […]