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Rh We are only the “lower classes,”
 * But the Holy Scriptures tell

How, when the King of Glory
 * Came down on earth to dwell,

Not with the rich and mighty
 * ’Neath costly palace dome,

But with the poor and lowly
 * He chose to make His home.

He was one of the “lower classes,”
 * And had to toil for bread,

So poor that oftentimes He had
 * No place to lay His head.

He knows what it is to labor
 * And toil the long day thro’,

He knows when we are weary
 * For He’s been weary too.

O working girls! Remember,
 * It is neither crime or shame

To work for honest wages,
 * Since Christ has done the same,

And wealth and high position
 * Seem but of little worth

To us, whose fellow laborer
 * Is King of Heaven and Earth.

So when you meet with scornful sneers,
 * Just lift your heads in pride;

The shield of honest womanhood
 * Can turn such sneers aside,

And some day they will realize
 * That the purest, fairest pearls

’Mid the gems of noble womankind
 * Are “only working girls.”