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title: 'E.H. Hamilton: Afraid? Of What?'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-10-13
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-e-h-hamilton-afraid-of-what
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# E.H. Hamilton: Afraid? Of What?

*Afraid? Of what?
To feel the spirit’s glad release?
To pass from pain to perfect peace.
The strife and strain of life to cease?
Afraid—of that?*

*Afraid? Of what?
Afraid to see the Saviour’s face,
To hear His welcome, and to trace
The glory gleam from wounds of grace?
Afraid—of that?*

*Afraid? Of what?
A flash—a crash—a pierced heart;
Darkness—light—Oh, Heaven’s art!
A wound of His a counterpart!
Afraid—of that?*

*Afraid? Of what?
To enter into Heaven’s rest,
And yet to serve the Master blest,
From service good to service best?
Afraid—of that?*

*Afraid? Of what?
To do by death what life could not:
Baptize with blood a stony plot,
Till souls shall blossom from the spot?
Afraid—of that? —* [**E.H. Hamilton**](/authors/evelyn-harrison-hamilton), *“I am Not Afraid!”: The Story of John W. Vinson, Christian Martyr in China* (1936), pp. 19-20