When I Love Most, Love

Stung By The Splendour Of A Sudden Thought.

Is Your Love For The Lord Sufficient To Give All Your Time And Talents To His Work?

I Hear You Reproach, "but Delay Was Best, For Their End Was A Crime." Oh, A Crime Will Do As Well, I Reply, To Serve For A Test As A Virtue Golden Through And Through, Sufficient To Vindicate Itself And Prove Its Worth At A Moment's View! . . . . . . Let A Man Contend To The Uttermost For His Life's Set Prize, Be It What It Will! The Counter Our Lovers Staked Was Lost As Surely As If It Were Lawful Coin; And The Sin I Impute To Each Frustrate Ghost Is-the Unlit Lamp And The Ungirt Loin, Though The End In Sight Was A Vice, I Say.

A Whole I Planned, Youth Shows But Half; Trust God: See All, Nor Be Afraid!

Just For A Handful Of Silver He Left Us, Just For A Riband To Stick In His Coat.