O That Pearl of Great Price!

O that pearl of great price! have you found it?

Is the Sav­ior su­preme in your love?

O con­sid­er it well

ere you an­swer

As you hope for a wel­come ab­ove.

Have you giv­en up all for this trea­sure?

Have you count­ed past gains as but loss?

Has your trust in your­self and your mer­its

Come to naught be­fore Christ and His cross?

Have you come to the liv­ing Re­deem­er

Him that bore all your sins on the tree?

Has He gra­cious­ly par­doned and cleansed you

In the blood shed for you and for me?

At His feet as one dead

have you fall­en

And been quick­ened anew by His voice

Till

en­tranced by His riches of good­ness

In His pre­sence you live and re­joice?

Has the Sav­ior

the right­eous

the ho­ly

Cast the beams of His all search­ing light

Into all of your heart’s deep re­cess­es

And trans­formed in­to day their dark night?

O then an­swer these quest­ions so press­ing

Before God

ere time’s fa­vor shall cease

Is the pearl of great price yours for­ev­er?

Have you Je­sus

and in Him your peace?