"O friends, receive me, for I am of you, Redeemed by your Redeemer, Christ the Lord. I love Him, and I know it is because He first loved me and taught me how to love. This love that wells in me and overflows My being thus, it is not mine I know, But His, or only as He makes it, mine. I love you all in Him, and feel that ye In Him likewise love me. He has unlocked The gates of speech; He makes the dumb to speak. And now I pray you tell me, is there not Some thing ye know, some little thing perhaps, For I am meek and lowly like a child And I do not aspire to things above My measure, which indeed I know is small, Some little simple thing that I can do For Jesus, just because He wishes it And for no other reason in the world Than only that, to testify to Him In act and testify to all that see How much I love Him, and how much desire To be henceforth His servant all in all? I should be glad to do this if I might With no delay at all, I am in haste. I know from all that I have learned through you And from the lovely feeling in my heart, This eager impulse to make haste and be The perfect image of your Lord and mine-- I know thus that there is an endless joy Before me of obedience to His will In beautiful behavior like His own And all conformity to what is fair Whether in temper, thought, wish, word, or deed, Or whatsoever else is life or being-- A boundless possibility of bliss Awaiting and inviting me--whereto All hail and welcome, be my footsteps fleet To run forever up this shining way!-- Yet am I not contented till I hear Whether there be not bidden some thing besides Of gracious privilege from Christ to those Who love Him as I love Him, which such may, In the first freshness of new birth, at once Do for an ease and comfort to their love." Wonder with gladness filled all hearts that heard, When Krishna, he of words so slow and few, Flowed like a river thus from frost unbound. And Paul said: "'Be baptized,' Lord Jesus taught First privilege of obedience to His will In outward visible act offered to those Who have before invisibly obeyed Him inwardly and taken Him for Lord. Thou therefore, brother, if thou wilt, shalt be Forthwith baptized according to His word. Buried with Him by baptism into death Thou wilt be, that as Christ was from the dead Raised by the glory of the Father so Thou also mayst henceforth forever walk In a new life."