HE SHALL PROSPER WHO OBEYS.
By Mrs. Frank A. Breck
[Mrs. Frank A. Breck, in the Advance.] THERE is no royal road to right;
No victory comes at idle call;
Prosperity is not for might;
Fair Wisdom's way is free to all.
This grand old law forever stays:
That he shall prosper who obeys. Old Israel heard with trembling awe,
Proclaimed from Sinai's mount sublime,
The dictates of that righteous law
That echoes on throughout all time.
God taught them in a thousand ways,
That he shall prosper who obeys. Wo unto him who dares to spurn
The truth Jehovah maketh known!
Too late, alas! he yet shall learn
That right must not be overthrown.
Tho retribution long delays,
He only prospers who obeys. The cattle on a thousand hills,
The sunset's mystic glory-bars,
The cataracts and mountain rills,
The sun and moon and rolling stars,
All show—yea, heaven itself portrays—
That he shall prosper who obeys. Let nations fear the Almighty God,
Repenting humbly in the dust,
Nor stand beneath His lifted rod,
But make His age-tried Word their trust.
Let us remember all our days,
The nation prospers that obeys.