Clement of Alexandria (Died about A. D. 217) This poem, which is found at the close of Clement’s “Pædagogue,” is a sublime but somewhat turgid song of praise to the Logos, as the divine educator and leader of the “human race.” The title of the …
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“I WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF”
LORD Jesus, we are yearning Thine own blest face to see; And in Thy glorious presence Forevermore to be. To rest with Thee, dear Saviour, Throughout long years to come; And leave Thee, never, never, O’er earth again to roam. Ah! lone has been the …
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EVENING HYMN
The day is past and over: All thanks, O Lord, to thee! I pray thee that offenseless The hours of dark may be. O Jesu, keep me in thy sight, And save me through the coming night! The joys of day are over: I lift …
BATTLE SONG AGAINST SATAN
Jehovah, judge my cause, Avenge me of my foe, Fight against Satan and his host: Oh, lay the strong one low! I have cast off his yoke, Renounced his cursèd sway; For this he doubly hates, and longs To seize me as his prey. To …
HOMEWARD
TO my beloved ones my steps are moving; Not hard the road that ends in love and home. Have done my eyes, have done my feet with roving; ’Tis to the well-known gate I look and come. Your watch is now on the eternal mountains; …
AUTUMN ROSES
I sing not in these songs of full-blown Summer roses, Trellised upon love’s gate, or through her garden spread, Drunk with the mystic moon, as she her eyelids closes, Resplendent at her waking from the sunrise red. Mine are but aftergrowth, such as, while Autumn …
On The Soul
Life is more than a result of organization. Consciousness, thought, feeling, are more than functions of matter. No materialist philosopher has ever been, or ever will be, able to explain within the limits of his system the strange difference between the cause and the effect; …
UPON THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father which in heaven art, Thy name be always hallowed; Thy kingdom come, thy will be done; Thy heavenly path be followed By us on earth as ‘tis with thee, We humbly pray; And let our bread us given be, From day to day. …
“REST IN THE LORD”
HE shed His precious blood, And this is rest. He made our peace with God, And this is rest. He died upon the tree, And this is rest. He rose again for thee, And this is rest. He lives and intercedes, And this is rest. …
MEDITATIONS UPON AN EGG
The egg’s no chick by falling from the hen; Nor man a Christian, till he’s born again. The egg’s at first contained in the shell; Men, afore grace, in sins and darkness dwell. The egg, when laid, by warmth is made a chicken, And Christ, …