The Only Way - A Poem by Annie Johnson Flint

 

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

The Only Way

Oh, the roads men make and the ways they take

To lead them up to heaven,

Since the first made man, with his easy plan,

From Eden’s gate was driven!

Some turn and twist through the fog and mist

With a plea of the Father’s kindness;

Some only lead to a newer creed

For the cure of mortal blindness.

Some waver out in the sands of doubt

Where the trail is lost forever;

And some sink in to the swamps of sin

And cease their high endeavor.

Some stop before the open door

Of the Higher Critics’ college;

And some stretch on in the twilight wan

Of Scientific Knowledge.

Some love the way in the miry clay

Of the devil’s specious treason;

Some wander lone in the vast unknown

Of philosophic reason.

But never a way will reach the goal,

Save the Way that God has given,

For “the blood-red road of the cross of Christ”

Is the only way to heaven.

by Annie Johnson Flint