The Fool Has Said,"There Is No God" 

How many legs does a dog have?
        We gladly answer, "Four."
But if we call his tail a leg
        Won't there be one more?
"Of course not"we respond
        "Surely you must know,
Changing the name, you see,
        Will not make it so!"

Yet people play this silly game
        When talking about one's belief.
They think that trying to convert
        Will only cause other's grief.
Now in this great land of ours
        Is something so strange of late,
For trying to win the lost to Christ
        Is now called a crime of "Hate!"

Our Missionaries have always known it
        Where the Gospel is contested,
But we never believed that it could be
        In our land we would be arrested.

They think by calling evil good
        And what is good as bad,
That they have made it to be so.
        Now isn't that quite sad?
They say that our religion is an opinion
        It is only what we've believed
And that there is no truth at all,
        Thus the masses are deceived.

Yet there will soon be a tick of the clock
        That is different than any before
For it will mean that the twentieth century
        Will truly be no more.

And there is a beat in each human heart
        Just like all others we've known
When God will declare that it is time
        To reap what we have sown.
It matters not if one believes it 
        For it must suddenly surely be
That what one believes affects
        Where he will spend his eternity!

For here I must reiterate
        That opinions can not change a fact
And here are some of the facts
        That people seem to attack

There is a God who gave His Son
        And raised Him from the dead
And all will meet this Blessed One
        For this is what God said.
You may believe it or you may not.
        It will not change the fact!
But what you believe will change you
        And change the way you act.



August 1, 1999
George H. Van Sandt