Are you ready now to enter
In with Christ, the coming One?
Of your hope is He the center,
Who so soon is sure to come?
Have you heard the solemn warning
He is sounding everywhere?
Are you waiting for the morning,
When the saints His glory share?
Do you know the world is sleeping,
And in vain they hear the cry?
Are you of the few that’re keeping
Watch for Him with anxious eye?
Those who have in Him believed,
They on earth would not abide,
For they wait to be received,
When He comes to take His bride.
These take oil while they are going,
And of Him they love to speak:
In their life they’re ever showing
That ‘tis Christ alone they seek.
See the many onward moving,
Who profess this Christ to love;
Yet their ways are daily proving
They can never dwell above.
With no oil they start to meet Him,
And their lamps would feign to shine;
But they never yet received Him,
And the world’s their native clime.
They go forth; but who are worthy
With the Lord to enter there?
Those that know Him, they are worthy,
And the Saviour’s home shall share.
All the rest are still found wanting,
For they do not know His name;
They did not receive the warning,
And they have themselves to blame.
So the ready ones shall gather
To a place that’s bright and fair,
To be with the Lord forever,
All His joy and love to share.
ML 04/13/1902