Its effence, not its writ, Our sovereign rule we call; With this free reverence, Lord, To prayer and holy thought; To faiths from highest fountains brought, Thy presence, Father, make The refuge and supply; And for thy Truth and Mercy's sake Build on, and sanctify. Dr. N. L. Frothingham. 1863. ON THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL. NE holy Church of God appears Through every age and race, Unwafted by the lapse of years, Unchanged by changing place. From oldest time, on fartheft shores, One Unseen Presence the adores, Her priests are all God's faithful sons he truth is her prophetic gift, O living Church! thine errand speed; With bread of life Earth's hunger feed; Redeem the evil time! Rev. S. Longfellow. 1863. LIFE OF AGES. IFE of Ages, richly poured, L' Love of God, unspent and free, Flowing in the Prophet's word And the People's liberty! Never was to chosen race That unftinted tide confined; Thine is every time and place, Fountain sweet of heart and mind! Secret of the morning ftars, Breathing in the thinker's creed, Consecrating art and song, Holy book and pilgrim track, Hurling floods of tyrant wrong From the sacred limits back, – Life of Ages, richly poured, Love of God, unspent and free, Flow ftill in the Prophet's word And the People's liberty! Rev. S. Johnson. 1863. |