Compassion lays the suffering one
Outside the sacred temple gate,
Or brings the cripple to the edge
Of famed Bethesda's bubbling pool;
And friends convey a palsied man
To rest before the Master's feet.
Then human love can do no more.
But Jesus, loving Saviour, bids
The cripple rise, "Take up thy bed."
Discerning faith, he grants forgiveness,
Healing, to the palsied one.
And John and Peter, in due time,
Lift up the lame man at the gate.
All these arise and walk in strength
Bestowed by Christly love and power.
So Christian Science in this day
Transcends the human sympathy,
Proclaims anew the voice divine,
Triumphant, ultimate, sublime,
"Be whole, be healed, arise, O son!
