Hymn for my Brother's Ordination

Christ to the young man said: "Yet one thing more; / If thou wouldst perfect be, / Sell all thou hast and give it to the poor, / And come and follow me!"

Within this temple Christ again, unseen, / Those sacred words hath said, / And his invisible hands to-day have been / Laid on a young man's head.

And evermore beside him on his way / The unseen Christ shall move, / That he may lean upon his arm and say, / "Dost thou, dear Lord, approve?"

Beside him at the marriage feast shall be, / To make the scene more fair; / Beside him in the dark Gethsemane / Of pain and midnight prayer.

O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! / Like the beloved John / To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, / And thus to journey on!