"If to-day thou turn'st aside, In the luxury and pride,
Wrapped within thyself, and blind
To the sorrows of thy kind,
Thou a faithless watch dost keep.
Thou art one of those who sleep:
Or, if waking thou dost see
Nothing of divinity
In our fallen struggling race,
If in them thou seest no trace
Of a glory dimmed, not gone,
Of a future to be won,
Of a future, hopeful, high,
Thou, the Peter, dost deny;
But if, seeing, thou believest,
If the Evangel thou receivest,
Yet, if thou art bound to sin,
False to the ideal within,
Slave of ease, or slave of gold,
Thou the Son of God hast sold."
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"If to-day thou turn'st aside...
From the December 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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