PREPARE FOR HIM!

By Horatius Bonar

[i]The time is short!
If thou would’st work for God it
must be now;
If thou would’st win the garland for
thy brow,
Redeem the time!

Shake off earth’s sloth!
Go forth with staff in hand while yet
’tis day;
Set out with girded loins upon the way.
Up, linger not!

Fold not thy hands!
What has the pilgrim of the Cross
and Crown
To do with luxury or couch of down?
On pilgrim, on!

With His reward
He comes, He tarries not, His day
is near;
When men least look for Him He
will be here.[/i]

PREPARE FOR HIM!

"And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming" (1 John 2:28).

Zeal In Labor
By Horatius Bonar

[i]Go, labor on; spend and be spent,
Thy joy to do the Father’s will;
It is the way the Master went;
Should not the servant tread it still?

Go, labor on; ’tis not for naught;
Thine earthly loss is heavenly gain.
Men heed thee, love thee, praise thee not;
The Master praises -- what are men?

Toil on, faint not; keep watch and pray!
Be wise the erring soul to win;
Go forth into the world’s highway;
Compel the wanderer to come in.

Toil on, and in the toil rejoice;
For toil comes rest, for exile, home;
Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom’s voice,
The midnight peal, "Behold, I come!"[/i]