TRUTH LIVES ON by Jennie G. Kinley

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1873

TRUTH LIVES ON.

By Jennie G. Kinley

Through the rugged march of time, Marked with misery, sin and crime, Error stalks with upreared head, O’er her fields of slaughtered dead; But beneath her bloody tread The Truth lives on.

Warriors strong and brave of yore, Drenched Judea’s plains with gore, And the land with war was rife, For his tomb who hated strife, In the teachings of whose life The Truth lives on.

Progress rolls her car along, Slowly righting human wrong; Might the right may crucify, Nothing can her power defy; Though Herod live and Jesus die, The Truth lives on.

Burning fagots blazing high, Gibbets tow’ring to the sky, Inquisition’s rack and pain, Slavery clanking loud its chain, Falsehood triumphs still in vain: The Truth lives on.

Underneath this load of wrong, Truth eternal moves along; Every true heart’s mighty throe Rolls away some human woe; Error reels beneath the blow, And Truth lives on.

Fountains of the deep are stirred, Mighty thoughts unbreathed in word, Till the living Future’s soul, Bursting forth, will spurn control; Shouts of freedom heavenward roll, And Truth lives on.

Every blow at slavery’s yoke, Every true word boldly spoke, Every holy thought within, Breaks and curbs the power of sin; Freedom’s dawn is ushered in, And Truth lives on.

—Jennie G. Kinley.