THE PRESENT CRISIS by Arthur Cleveland Coxe

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 28, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 47.

THE PRESENT CRISIS.

By Arthur Cleveland Coxe

BY BISHOP ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE.

WE are living, we are dwelling, in a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling to be living is sublime. Hark! the waking up of nations, Gog and Magog to the fray. Hark! what soundeth?—'Tis creation groaning for its latter day.

Will ye play, then, will ye dally, with your music and your wine? Up, it is Jehovah's rally; God's own arm hath need of thine.

Hark! the onset, will ye fold your faith-clad arms in lazy lock? Up, O up, thou drowsy soldier! Worlds are charging to the shock.

Worlds are charging—heaven beholding; thou hast but an hour to fight; Now the blazoned cross unfolding, on—right onward for the right. On! let all the soul within you for the truth's sake go abroad. Strike! let every nerve and sinew tell on ages, tell for God.

—Reformed Church Messenger.