Poems (Jordan)/Creedless Service

by Rebecca Queen Jordan

CREEDLESS SERVICE

'Twixt human hearts with kindred needs
Erect no barrier of creeds;
Christ died for all and, like Him, we
Should measure life with ministry.

Dare Sect presume to guide the knife
Upon a consecrated life?
Shall service rendered only be
By hands of Partiality?

Nay, Lord, but let us, as the Christ,
By priestly Love be sacrificed;
Nor one ignore, though on his face
We no familiar feature trace.

Then shall our words and deeds but vein
The life-blood of Man's Savior, slain;
Then of Himself may all partake
Through lives laid down for Jesus' sake.