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| PAUSE now, and think, O Christian soul! | |
| Is Christ a shadowy name? | |
| Say, wilt thou give to Him that whole | |
| Being, for which He came? | |
| Ask of thyself: “Whose Son is He?” | 5 |
| Is He of earth or heaven? | |
| And art thou a co-heir to be | |
| Of hopes that He has given? | |
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| Pause now, and think, O Christian soul | |
| What is the Christ to thee? | 10 |
| A dim idea, to console | |
| In some extremity? | |
| A Name to win thee man’s respect, | |
| The praise of flesh and blood? | |
| If so, thou art not His elect, | 15 |
| And not the child of God. | |
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| For God on high claims all our love, | |
| “Him only shalt thou serve,” | |
| His mansions wait for thee above, | |
| If here thou wilt not swerve. | 20 |
| On earth He sent His Son to show | |
| The one true heavenward way, | |
| And thou must follow Him to know | |
| God’s everlasting day. | |
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| Dwell thou in God, and God in thee, | 25 |
| So mayest thou know the Son: | |
| The I in them, and Thou in Me, | |
| “That they in Us be one.” | |
| His penitents begin that joy, | |
| His saints that bliss fulfil; | 30 |
| And angels there find sweet employ, | |
| Obedient to His Will. | |
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| O pause, then, doubtful Christian soul! | |
| Think what a heaven is thine, | |
| If thou wilt break from earth’s control, | 35 |
| And own thy Christ divine. | |
| Nor hesitate to make thy choice, | |
| Nor “tempt thy God,” Who still | |
| Waits, with the angels to rejoice | |
| Over man’s conquered will. | 40 |
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