# Note This poem is credited to Margaret E. Barber but is published in two American magazines, The Western Christian Advocate and The Occident, a Presbyterian Family Newspaper. We feel it is unlikely to be authored by the missionary Margaret E. Barber and thus is not listed with among her poems. It is copied here for completeness. # What Is Saintliness? Doing life's little duties, Under the eye of God; Following very closely Where Christ, the Master, trod. Giving up ease and pleasure To do the Master's will, Striving with love and patience His wishes to fulfill. Spending a little leisure In comforting the sad; Giving myself some trouble To make another glad. Giving a gentle answer To undeserved blame; Because to friend and scoffer The Savior was the same. Bearing reproach and railing Humbly and patiently; Because thy Lord would have me Just like himself to be. Teaching the little children To seek the Lord I love; Striving by pure example To draw their souls above. Repeating to some wanderer, Words from the sacred page; Being a beam of sunshine To childhood, youth, and age. Diffusing light and blessing Wherever I may go; Being an imitator Of God while here below. Living in close communion With Him who died for me; This is a life of saintship, Pleasing, my God, to thee. —Margaret E. Barber, in the Occident --- ## Earliest Known Publication: Western Christian Advocate, April 7th, 1897. pg 432, under the heading "Young Folks" ![[New MEB Poem in Western Christian Advocate Mag 432页1897年诗歌.png]]