p. 1 | THE MIND OF CHRIST

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, April 28, 1885

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 17

THE MIND OF CHRIST.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." Phil.

WHEN swelling passions strive within For mastery in the fight, And we contend with ardent zeal, For what we judge is right; When watchfulness is lost to view, Pause then on anger's brink, And calmly ask, O, child of God, What would the Saviour think?

Though difference should cast a film O'er our opponents' eye, And they defend what we deem wrong, With Christ-like charity; Oh! let us not by zeal for right To wrong be led astray, But pause and think, and calmly ask, What would the Saviour say?

View not all wrongs thou mayest see With microscopic haste; Nor let thy field of kindly thought Be made a barren waste; But let thy judgments, like thy Lord's, Be wise, and kind, and true, And ask thyself e'er thou dost act, What would the Saviour do?

Thy Saviour, when reviled by man, Reviled not again; He never said a needless word, Nor caused a needless pain. Follow his steps, though thou shouldst have To stifle hurtful facts, And learn to be like him in all Thy thoughts, thy words, thy acts.

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