<h2><SPAN name="page78"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>WHO IS A CHRISTIAN?</h2>
<p class="poetry">Who is a Christian in this Christian land<br/>
Of many churches and of lofty spires?<br/>
Not he who sits in soft upholstered pews<br/>
Bought by the profits of unholy greed,<br/>
And looks devotion, while he thinks of gain.<br/>
Not he who sends petitions from the lips<br/>
That lie to-morrow in the street and mart.<br/>
Not he who fattens on another’s toil,<br/>
And flings his unearned riches to the poor,<br/>
Or aids the heathen with a lessened wage,<br/>
And builds cathedrals with an increased rent.</p>
<p class="poetry">Christ, with Thy great, sweet, simple creed of
love,<br/>
How must Thou weary of Earth’s ‘Christian’
clans,<br/>
Who preach salvation through Thy saving blood<br/>
While planning slaughter of their fellow men.<br/>
<SPAN name="page79"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>Who is a
Christian? It is one whose life<br/>
Is built on love, on kindness and on faith;<br/>
Who holds his brother as his other self;<br/>
Who toils for justice, equity and PEACE,<br/>
And hides no aim or purpose in his heart<br/>
That will not chord with universal good.</p>
<p class="poetry">Though he be pagan, heretic or Jew,<br/>
That man is Christian and beloved of Christ.</p>
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