A CHRISTIAN’S ALPHABET
ALPHA speaks of new-born
hearts being taught at Jesus’ feet.
Going on to Omega where learning
is complete.
BUSINESS controlled, and
clean, won’t get you in too deep;
Pursue it in the daytime; don’t
bring it home to sleep.
CONFESS CHRIST, and let your
life conform to all you preach
There may be some seeking soul
whom you alone can reach.
DISCIPLINE prepares the heart
to serve its Lord through grace
For rebels in His Kingdom He
cannot find a place.
ENDURE hardness; the loads you
bear will make you strong;
Today is enduring time; tomorrow
ends in song.
FAITH makes the things of God
and Heaven of greater worth,
Than all the treasures and
deceitful sins of earth.
GENTLENESS is always loved;
‘tis strong and yet so mild;
Longsuffering is its mother, and
Goodness fair its child.
HONEST hearts ne’er shun the
cost of rightness in God’s eyes;
To bargain and procrastinate will
only lose the prize.
INTERCESSION at the Heavenly
Father’s Throne
Brings help to other hearts, and
grace unto your own.
“JESUS” is the answer to all
questions in your mind
For present, and for future, and
all that is behind.
KEEP thy heart with diligence,
the garments undefiled;
Then as the ‘apple of His eye’
will God e’er keep His child.
LOVE made our Shepherd choose
the rugged mountain track,
To seek and find, and on His
shoulders bring us back.
MARRIAGE with three good rules
will bring its own reward - -
Wisely, not hastily, and ‘only in
the Lord.’
NOAH brought up sons for God
amidst a world of wrongs;
This will require more of you
than lilting cradle songs.
OLD THINGS are best; God
changes not His mind;
Unchanging Truth, and God’s good
Way are sweet to find.
PLEASURES are passing; lasting
joy is only found
Within the will of God, and on
Redemption ground.
QUIETNESS and confidence will
give thee strength Divine;
Absence of Condemnation will
cause thy face to shine.
ROLL all thy burden on the ONE
who loves and cares;
He understands thee, and all thy
sorrows shares.
SLANDER is an evil thing, and
hard to be forgiven,
For slander is a heart sin
against the law of Heaven.
TRUE THANKFULNESS to God,
expressed in joyful praise
Is seemly, and is but His due,
and brightens all thy days.
UNDERSTANDING from the Lord is
more than Knowledge;
His Spirit teaches better far
than school or college.
VALUES will change for us and
different be our goal
When in eternal scales we weigh a
human soul.
WATCH your hand when sowing;
consider well the reaping
In bounty
or in scanty sheaves; in joy or weeping.
XERXES was a King of Kings;
Vashti his bride through grace;
Forgetting
what he made her cost her favored place.
YOUTH are called to fame and
glory, and the crown to win;
Youth are called to tell God’s
story, saving souls from sin.
ZEBEDEE’S two apostle sons,
and ever-open door,
Have been an inspiration to many
thousands more.
W.J. Hughes
Auckland,
N.Z. 1944