Oh, my people, saith the Spirit,
I have called you to be mine.
But my word you have not heeded,
Yet I've given you line by line.
Arise; arise then, in your manhood,
Seek to do what I have said.
Be not slothful, but obedient,
And my Spirit you shall aid.

Thus I'm seeking to encourage,
And to give you strength divine.
And your strength shall be enduring
If you'll keep my word in mind.
Let your thoughts be in my keeping
And refrain from Satan's lure,
Then your growth shall be assuring,
And in me ye shall endure.

Then be faithful to your mission;
Let your neighbors see and know
That I've called you to my kingdom
And through you I've sought to show
That my word is in your keeping,
And your lives in Christ are hid,
That the power of the gospel
Is in doing what He said.

Get ye up then to the mountain,
And be one as I have said,
And I'll call into my kingdom,
By my Spirit, they'll be led.
Put your light, then, on the hilltop
That all men by it may see,
That you are my chosen children,
And forever mine shall be.

[Copied from a letter by Elmer K. Patterson, in the Saints' Herald of December 13, 1921.]