The Voice of One Who Wept by Martha Snell Nicholson

The Voice of One Who Wept

by Martha Snell Nicholson from Threshold of heaven,

Today I heard the voice of one who wept

In far off lands

Because of sin and misery,

And begged with outstretched hands

For one small lamp to light his dark.

Now fain I would have slept,

So - stopped my ears, but in my heart

That sobbing voice still wept.

And then I heard the voice of one who

Counted not the cost,

But left His ivory palaces to seek and

Save the lost.

He said, "The sound of one who weeps

Is coming up to Me.

Dost thou forget that last command

Which I gave unto Thee,

To preach my Word to all the world?"

O, bitter be our shame!

Still hopeless millions walk the earth

Who never heard His Name,

And still the world spends lavishly

In every crowded mart,

And still the voice of Him who wept

Is sobbing in my heart!

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