O who could bear the dreadful thought,
To be shut out from heaven?
To have no portion in the place
Where crowns of life are given?
Yet though we cannot bear the thought, Alas! it must be so,
Unless, believing in the Lord,
To Him for life we go.
For none can gain admission there,—To that bright world above,
But they who in the Lord believe,
And know a Saviour’s love.
Poor trembling sinner, “Come,”
God waits to comfort thee;
O cast thyself upon His love,
So vast, so full, so free!
ML 04/26/1931