New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-25

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When True Religion wears her coronet
Che does not vaunt it before human eyes,
She does not walk the earth in holy guise,
And no exclusive seal is on her set;
She does not shun the arts, nor spurn the graces'
And has horror of the drawndown faces
Che does not ask for money, melting out
Her service, thus much is dollars worth
Her recompense is not the gold of earth,
Enlarging, by her gain, the skeptic's doubt
And, if the last years stipend were unpaid,
simmer should not damn for lack OF aid.
Ibaye known something-I have known too
much
OF mere protesting teachers, to believe
That all is godliness that men receive,
Unable TO discriminate, as such:
Ihave known men, who failed in other ways,
Keephosse and carriage upon prayer and praise.
An know something also of the good,
ssue Christian pastor, who himself has given
sincerely, unreservedly to Heaven.
he does not advertise the angels food;
he does not make his sanctity trade,
Nor in religious journals, ask for aid.
o, Maker, Father, from Thy flock expel
The wolves who have got access to the fold.
Whose love of Thee is only love of gold,
As all their actions very clearly tell;
They only look for DOLLARS while they preach.
And cry Give, give like daughters ofthe leech.
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A cry that few can understand
Pursues the sun from land to land,
A yearning cry for better faith,
And love that shall be strong to death.
Ourfathers would not hold doubt
Within their churches, nor without;
With skeptics they would not contend
They charred their bones and made an end.
The psalms they sang around the stake
Were heartfelt -" Lord, 0 Lord, awake,
And fall on all Thine enemies
As the frost falls on Summer flies.
assure them Thou art great, Lord,
With one sweep OF Thy flashing sword
o loving Father, drive them forth,
And drive their children from the earth.
aCause them to want their bread and de-
Let no man ne6O their
And dead-we know that Thou, God,
Wilt ever after WELD the rod
0Thy love for us, Thy chosen race,
Is great, we owe it to Thy grace;
And we shall see Thee, face to face,
When these howl in the outer place"
think that they were honest men
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They thought their creed, they lived their creed,
And what they did, they did indeed.
If grounded on the frmest faith
understand, "JehOvah saith,
The foe shall perish from the land !
What is it that understand!
II, furthermore, Jehovah cries
@Help me against Mine enemies;
And this man is Mine enemy,
He shall not live, bat he shall die
~For have sent My Holy Word
To save the EARTH and he has heard,
And with the quick fruit Of his wit
Has laughed and scorned, denying it,"
81 Shall l, not being slow to feel,
Be slow to prove, with fire and steel,
My deep devotion to the veal
Of Him, to whom daily kneel?
Our new religion is too lax
To light the torch or grind the ak;
Our prophets wane, our skeptics wax
Gods heroes burnt them up like fax.
Old faith is gone dead out, they tell,
Who do not wish Religion well.
/ dare not say that they are wrong,
Buty hear an under song.
An under song. that rises clear,
That presently the world shall hear,
That presently the world shall ell,
And go, like dawn, from hill to hill
Men are like sheep, and where the leader reads'
3 n follow fifty score of empty heads
The path once beaten, where one bigot trod,
millions haste to blaspheme God.
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