In Matthew’s Gospel see the I King,
By God to Israel sent,
In MARK, God’s faithful Servant is
In willing service spent.
In LUKE we get a wondrous Man,
This scene below who trod,
Whilst JOHN presents to all who gaze,
The Eternal Son of God.
Luke then the book of ACTS compiles
Though he was not a Jew,
The history of the Church, he writes,
Of Paul and Peter too.
In ROMANS the Apostle Paul
God’s gospel us doth give,
In striking contrast to the law,
Which said “this do and live.”
Then next to the CORINTHIAN saints,
There are epistles two,
In which are seen how saints should walk,
Who have the cross in view.
GALATIANS is the next at hand,
A treatise sharp and grave,
In which the law and gospel due
Consideration have.
EPHESIANS gives the highest truths,
Which to the saints are known,
As blessed with every blessing they
Are in God’s favor shown.
In PHILIPPIANS see the saint
With Christ identified,
And walking as the Christian should
His joy is magnified.
COLOSSIANS is the next in view,
From prison Paul did write,
The Person of the glorious Head
He brings before their sight.
The THESSALONIANS are the first
Epistles from his pen,
And comfort to the saints he brings,
For “Christ shall come again.”
To TIMOTHY he writeth twice
A Christian young and bright,
And solemnly he charges him
The fight of faith to fight.
Then TITUS and PHILEMON next,
Epistles brief do get,
The former he had left in Crete
To “things in order set.”
The HEBREW saints are next addressed.
Paul warns them to beware,
And calls on them to leave the camp,
And Christ’s reproach to bear.
Religion pure and undefiled
Is next the theme of JAMES.
Where faith is proved by works, ‘tis well,
And where it’s not he blames.
Two letters to the Hebrew saints
From PETER’S pen we reach,
God’s government toward saints
And sinners, he doth teach.
Then JOHN, the loved disciple, writes
In three epistles short,
To walk in love, whilst here below,
He doth the saints exhort.
The latter days the Apostle JUDE
In colors dark doth paint,
And calls on those who faith possess
To fight, and not to faint.
The book of “REVELATION” last
The sacred volume ends,
And happy is the one who reads
And keeps what it commends.
W. J. Nesbitt, Montreal, May, 1910
ML 01/25/1959