Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-09
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SATURDAY EVENING, JULY Q, 1851.
LITTLE OnlLD.

LITTLE OHlLD.
IThe following poem by Mrs. Prof. ShOupe,
OF Dubuque, MAS read before the annual meet
ing OF the Iowa State Sunday school associa-
tioa at Burlington. Iowa.l
!.
Upon the mount OF vision the mighty prophet
stood,
And saw the centuries sweep by. swift as
torrents food;
Till far. far down the ages. tho glorious dawn
behold,
Brighter than ever shown upon the fabled age
OF old.
Then the wolf OF iawless violence no more
shall tear tho lamb;
Then the common people, held so long, AS fat
lings for his game.
Shall walk in peace and safety the fryant lion
beside,
And fraud, the stealthv leopard, lose all his
evil pride.
Then all the evil passions that crush and curse
the race,
Made innocent and pcweriess. shall keep their
lonely place;
And the wearied child shall play upon The;
cockatrice's den,
Where now the fiery poison Is dealt to mad
lcned men.
Then wcarines, and grief and Ignorance shall
cease,
The cries Of strife and anguish be husied III
holy peace.
Then man with felloW-mt In snail Walk, ''h"
peaceable anG just,
And a little Child shall lead thcm-so saith the
prophets trust.
The earth il all in darkness and weary Tor the
dawn;
Her old beliefs are shattered, her ancient gods
are gone;
Great Pan is dead, is dead ami the hearts OF
men a-srope
Through the darkness for the living God, are
fainting from their hope.
But in the darkest midnight OF all the 'ieary
times
Tho golden floors of heaven burst. with an
gels song, sublime,
Peace, peace on earth, good will L" men,
glory to highest Cod"
The light Is come the Christ i, born bless
ing and prOise and loud!
.stiOod things of great joy we bring to the ma
tions OF the earth,
For lite and Immortality have hal their glori-
Gus birth
Haste We to Bethlehem. and amid the brown
eycu oxen Inliat,
Behold the Lord of glory, cDm: as a little
child"
Majestic mid bis carping foes, our Lori walk
cd through the land;
The Greatest and wisest round his presence
stand.
Here are tho learned doctors, and here the
lawyers grim,
And great men of the council the reverend
Sanhedrian.
And greater far than all OF these, here are the
chosen band
Who shall bear His name and story to every
distant land,
Ogrsatcr than all kings of earth Thou thine
apostles mad'st!
But he took a little child and sat him In their
midst!
Against the darkness OF the past. white !,
liIy's bloom
shows the story OF st. Christopher, amid the
tempcs.ss, SlO Jm;
The dark and stormy midnight, the torrent
raging wild,
Yet safely bearing in His arms the little wan
Gcring child.
He holds him high above the flood with an arm
that never fails;
Yet now the giant strength grows weak, the
giant cOuragGquails.
Around him and above him the watcry black
whirled-
Me seems fair child bear in thee the weight
of all the world =!
YET for the sake of Christ. his Lord. lie struG
giles bravcly on;
At last he staggers to the bank, the pcrilous
journey done.
Before his glad, adoring eyes, the chidfo form
changed and glOwed,
Till he knew the master of his love, the riser
Christ of God!
Praise to thee, ancient chrOnicler. thine in
sight hath sufficed
To see who serves little child, doth serve
heavenly Christ;
And who so bears the children upon hi
shoulders broad,
Hath the worlds hope for his lden. 10
strength the help of God,