CHARITY by C. Green

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 29, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 18

CHARITY

By C. Green

BY C. GREEN.

To tinkling cymbals, sounding brass, is he Fitly compared who lacketh charity; And though the gift of prophecy be given To understand all things in earth and Heaven, And knowledge, with all faith, mountains to move, Yet without charity these nothing prove.

Though all my goods I give to help the poor, Who throng my path, and clamor at my door; And though my body to the flames be given, If void of love, I pass for naught in Heaven.

Long suffereth charity, yet e'er is kind; Vaunts not itself, to envy's not inclined; Is not puffed up, and kindness shows to all; Foregoes her own when others' interests call; Not soon provoked, and evil thinks of none; Rejoiceth in the truth, wrong-doing shuns.

Endures all things, and well all things doth bear; And ever hopes, not yielding to despair. All prophecies shall end, and tongues shall cease, And knowledge pass, as does the summer breeze; But charity itself shall e'er endure, A guest with all the just, holy and pure,

Now love, faith, hope; the heavenly, holy three, Abide with all, but first stands charity.