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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 6, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 1.

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God Our God

By Arthur W. Spaulding

ARTHUR W. SPAULDING
THEY say, who guard the gates of hell, “Aha! the snares are set, The cords await to bind him well, The victim, in our net. Upon his way we stumbleth, He is devoted unto death.”
*But who is God save our God, And who is Hope but he, Who looseth bands, destroyeth snares, And them who’re taken unawares, Setteth at liberty?*
O haughty peoples that contemn The stricken’s mortal cry, Not yours the succor given them Ye have foredoomed to die. Loud shall your startled anguish ring When death shall claim to be your king.
*For who is God save our God, And who is Life but he, Who feedeth not the pride of men, But giveth to the poor again Life in infinity?*
Our God, he liveth, and the life In hope and love outrolls To them whose souls are prize of strife, And them who rescue souls. He standeth on the road of death, And them that will he rescueth.
*For who is God save our God, And who is Love but he? And them alone his hand shall bless Whose greatness is their gentleness, Whose power their charity.*