In trustful reverence we ask,
What has the Saviour said
To those who in the sunlight bask
And in His footsteps tread?
That human souls in every land
May know the living way,
What did our risen Lord command
His messenger to say?

As those who do in Him believe,
And Him as Saviour own;
We would unto His teachings cleave,
And follow Him alone.
And as we view His nail-pierced hand
This question ask we now,
What did our risen Lord command
Believing ones to do?

Where there is grief and woe and shame
And discord, fear, and strife;
We would, as those who love His name,
Hold "forth the word of life."
We ask with those who waiting stand
And hope His face to see,
What did our risen Lord command
His faithful ones to be?

T. Watson

Keady, Ont, 1905