Sardis. - Revelation iii.1-6.

"Write to Sardis," saith the Lord, And write what he declares, He whose Spirit, and whose word, Upholds the seven stars: "All thy works and ways I search, Find thy zeal and love decay'd: Thou art call'd a living church, But thou art cold and dead. "Watch, remember, seek, and strive, Exert thy former pains; Let thy timely care revive, And strengthen what remains: Cleanse thine heart, thy works amend, Former times to mind recall, Lest my sudden stroke descend, And smite thee once for all. "Yet I number now in thee A few that are upright; These my Father's face shall see And walk with me in white. When in judgment I appear, They for mine shall be confest; Let my faithful servants hear, And woe be to the rest."