CROWNED OR CRUCIFIED?

“What will ye then that I shall do unto Him?” (Mark 15:12)

I stood alone at the bar of God,
In the hush of the twilight dim,
And faced the question that pierced my heart:
“What will you do with Him?”
“Crowned or crucified? Which shall it be?”
No other choice was offered me.

He held out His loving hands to me,
While He pleadingly said, “Obey!
Make Me thy choice, for I love thee so”--
And I could not say Him nay,
Crowned, not crucified--this it must be;
No other way was open to me.

I knelt in tears at the feet of Christ,
In the hush of the twilight dim,
And all that I was, or hoped, or sought,
Surrendered unto Him.
Crowned, not crucified–my heart shall know
No king but Christ, who loveth me so.
—Dr. G. Campbell Morgan