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We are only the “lower classes,”
But the Holy Scriptures tell
How, when the King of Glory
Came down on earth to dwell,
Not with the rich and mighty
’Neath costly palace dome,
But with the poor and lowly
He chose to make His home.

He was one of the “lower classes,”
And had to toil for bread,
So poor that oftentimes He had
No place to lay His head.
He knows what it is to labor
And toil the long day thro’,
He knows when we are weary
For He’s been weary too.

O working girls! Remember,
It is neither crime or shame
To work for honest wages,
Since Christ has done the same,
And wealth and high position
Seem but of little worth
To us, whose fellow laborer
Is King of Heaven and Earth.

So when you meet with scornful sneers,
Just lift your heads in pride;
The shield of honest womanhood
Can turn such sneers aside,
And some day they will realize
That the purest, fairest pearls
’Mid the gems of noble womankind
Are “only working girls.”