What Have You Done. A Poem

What Have You Done?

Iponder, as the old year slips away To make room for the New Year with its smile, And ask myself, "What have you done, I pray, — To better man to make this life worth while?

"Have you each day some worthy action done? Do these twelve months make up your banner year? Did you uplift and help a fallen one, And fill his heart and soul with love and cheer?

"Have you some heavy-hearted soul made light, With tender word or kindly thought or deed? Have you upheld the truth and stood for right, Or in some honest heart sown gospel seed?

"Have you drawn nigh unto your God each day In fervent prayer, to seek His guiding hand? Or thanked Him for the gospel's glorious ray, And for His blessings to you in this land?

"Have you in humble prayer, shed tears of joy, And thanked Him for your mother kind and dear, And for His boundless mercies to you, boy?" Again I ask, Was this your banner year?

"Let not the coming year glide swiftly by more. Until you've done all this, and countless Echo the gospel message to the sky- Do good; be good; love truth; and sin deplore." Clyde Candland Edmonds. PRESTON, ENGLAND

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PLOWING THE VIRGIN SOIL