Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1893
Editorial.
By Editor
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable."—2 Tim. 3:16.
"LAY not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal."
THUS speaks our Lord in Matt. 6:19, 20. The reason he gives for this is not the mere saving of so much money or treasure, but the saving of souls; "for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." What a blessed privilege God presents before every child of his in these times of trial! Banks breaking, companies failing, railroads wrecking, stocks falling, real estate booms collapsing, mines closing, everybody distrustful,—such has been the record for months past, such is still the condition of things in many places. There is a general feeling of insecurity in financial circles. All institutions are suspected; none are implicitly trusted.
BUT in all these difficulties and financial failures, in which nations go down, there is one government which stands, one bank which has never and will never close its doors. God reigns, and the Bank of Heaven is solvent. No "run" can affect its credit or diminish its funds. The treasury of the Infinite is behind it all. Into that God asks that every one of earth's children shall lay up treasure. In that Bank deposit your funds. It has never failed; it never will fail; it never can fail. After carrying millions of people through a desert, after feeding them for forty years, after warring with tribes and nations under the direction of the Great Banker, one of the war-worn heroes thus speaks: "Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof." Josh. 23:15.
How MAY we lay up treasure in this bank? —In various ways. He that giveth to "the poor lendeth unto the Lord." And there are poor all around us, on every hand. "Many are unworthy." True, but who is not unworthy of all God's goodness. "Be ye therefore merciful as your Father also is merciful;" and he sends sunshine and rain both to the unjust and just. But give wisely and tenderly, so as not to injure the feelings of the needy nor increase the improvidence and shiftlessness of the idle and dissolute. Give to God's cause. Millions of souls are in darkness. Thousands of these are longing for light, starving for the Bread of Life, thirsting for the Water of Life. Means are needed to carry this truth. The investment is sure to him who has his heart in it. It brings not only eternal riches but a harvest of living souls. Do you not desire to invest? Reader, will you not have a share in Heaven's treasures?
"WE WOULD SEE A SIGN FROM THEE."
By Editor
THIS was the request, or demand, frequently made of our Lord by the Jews. Said the apostle, "The Jews seek after a sign." Jesus was grieved because that generation asked for a sign (Mark 8:12), and he tells us that "an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign" (Matt. 12:38, 39).
The same thing is demanded by many in this generation. God's truth may be taught never so clearly, and the demand is, "Show us a sign, work some miracle, heal the sick, speak with tongues, do something of this kind, and then we will believe." It is not honesty of heart which prompts the request; it is not simple faith which demands it. Christ wrought many miracles, but he did not work one on demand, nor to prove to those that asked it that he was the Christ. Those who asked were simply repeating the temptations of Satan, "If thou be the Son of God," make bread of stones, cast thyself down from the temple. God works no miracle to satisfy vain curiosity, nor to show his power. And although miracles have frequently been wrought through the servants, apostles, and prophets of Christ, yet they have not always been present; in fact, the greatest prophet previous to Christ—John the Baptist—"did no miracle."
The evidence which God gives to show that his messengers bear divine credentials is something better than signs or wonders. Signs appeal directly to the sense, are easily counterfeited by the enemy of all righteousness, and are therefore well fitted to be used in the work of deception. As an instance of this, a correspondent in the East sends us a copy of the Nashua (N. H.) Daily Telegraph, containing an account of how a certain Mrs. Murray was cured of a certain paralysis as the result of prayer and the making of "a novena to the blessed Virgin." We are asked what we think about it, especially as compared with what the Bible teaches concerning spiritual gifts and the miraculous power which God gives.
Well, in the first place, we do not doubt that some kind of healing of some kind of disease was wrought. What kind it is not for us to judge; but there are two kinds of miracles in the world. There are those wrought by the power of God, which Jesus declares would "follow them that believe." Mark 16:17, 18. There are also miracles wrought by the power of Satan; for the Scriptures declare that he shall work "with all power and signs and lying wonders" (2 Thess. 2:9); and of one of his agents the word declares he shall deceive "by the means of those miracles which he had power to do" (Rev. 13:14). Therefore of itself, as conclusive evidence, a miracle or sign is nothing. Satan can cause disease, and did in Christ's day, through the influence of his angels, or evil spirits. He cannot heal where creation is demanded, but he may be able to restore functional disorders which he has caused, by removing the cause. Why not?
2. There is but one test upon which to depend, and that is the word of God. "To the law and to the testimony" (Isa. 8:20) is forever the test of the true and the false, the counterfeit and the genuine. It was so in Christ's day. Those who demanded signs did not believe, though miracles were continually before them, while those who longed to know and do God's will found sufficient evidence without any miracles. And so it will be and is in the last days; those who are deceived by the miracles wrought by Satanic power will be those who "receive not the love of the truth;" and it is "for this cause" that the strong delusions sweep them away. See 2 Thess. 2:9-12. The words of Christ are applicable here: "If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
3. Miracles, signs, wonders, are all nothing as showing the credentials of heaven, for they are all counterfeited by Satan. But God's word, the gospel of his grace, the mystery of godliness, the selfish heart taken away and a new heart given by divine grace, the fruits of the Spirit of God manifest in the life, which are always in harmony with God's word,—these are the divine credentials. Satan has his signs and lying wonders, God has his miracles; Satan's tend to exalt man, and what is of man, while those of God work increased786humility in the man and tend always to glorify God. The word of Jehovah will show the source of each; that word as it is in Christ Jesus is the one and only test.
WORDS WORTH HEEDING.
By Editor
WITHOUT expressing any opinion on Representative Geary's position on the Chinese question, we wish to emphatically indorse the following in his speech before the House, October 11:—
I have before me a petition from 225 ministers of the Des Moines conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This petition in similar form has been sent here by all congregations. Issued from the same center—Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist—they all use the same blank.
What right has any American conference to ask of the American Congress that it shall do anything? What right has any conference in the land to say to the American Congress you must do this or you must do that?
I supposed that in this land the line was sharply drawn between the church and State; that the church must never lay hands on the government, and the government must never interfere with the church. I do not deny that every church member has a right given to another person, but he must petition as a citizen, standing on his right as such, and not invoke the powerful name of the church behind him.
I recognize the benefits of the church, but whenever the church mixes with politics, human liberty dies and man suffers. Because I am jealous of liberty I oppose now, as at all times, any interference of the church with American politics.
Will you admit the right of a Catholic archbishop of New York to rise in his pulpit and outline the policy of the American Congress? Are you willing to open up that Pandora's box and give the church the opportunity you are always howling against?
Brave words and well spoken. But this is just what the church has been doing for several years past, and is just what weak-kneed politicians in Congress have permitted her to do; not only permitted, but assisted in doing. Many petitions have been presented to Congress, said to express the sentiments of millions of petitioners; but many of these petitions have never been seen by the petitioners. They were "representative" of this church or that, of this religious body or that, and those who got them up were oftentimes the self constituted representatives of those said to be behind the petitions.
Happy would it have been for this nation if the Congress of the United States had answered in 1888, and especially in 1892, as Congress answered in 1829 and 1831:—
Extensive religious combinations to effect a political object . . . are always dangerous . . . If admitted, it may be justly apprehended that the future measures of the government will be strongly marked, if not eventually controlled, by the same influence. All religious despotism commences by combination and influence; and when that influence begins to operate upon the political institutions of a country, the civil power soon bends under it, and the catastrophe of other nations furnishes an awful warning of the consequences.—American State Papers, p. 95.
But the government has not only failed to heed this prophecy, but the prophecies of God's word, and the prophecies of history written in letters of blood. The Pandora's box is opened; the republic is already in the toils of the religious combination. "We hold the United States Senate in our hands," said the Rev. H. H. George, D.D., in a speech in Paterson, N. J., August 7, 1892. And the same year, December 9, in a speech in Lansing, Mich., the same man said: "We can hold Congress in our hands and wield this country just as we please." And to this United States senators have shamelessly assented. Congress was indifferent, and yielded to the religious influence on the Sunday question; but in that they yielded every principle dear to every liberty-loving American. They may now reap the fruits of it in the rapid destruction of the republic; and the church by thus forsaking her Lord will meet a sadder fate. God has foretold her doom and warned his people in the eighteenth chapter of the Revelation.
OUR "CHRISTIAN NATION."
SAYS Dr. Edward Thomson, as reported in the San Jose Mercury of September 11, in speaking for a California Sunday law:—
The fact is that this is a Christian nation. Our fathers planted it as a Christian nation; and it has lived as a Christian nation.
The falsity of this might be easily shown by placing the liquor bill, the prostitution bill, the tobacco bill, or the amount paid for prize fighting, over against the amount paid for all Christian work. The absurdity of the claim is just as easily shown. A Christian is one who so believes in Christ as to follow his example and obey his precepts. What would, therefore, be necessary for the nation to do in the case of the criminal? Read what Christ says: "If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him." Luke 17:3, 4.
How long before such a course would wreck a civil government! It is the duty of a Christian to be baptized, and give heed to the ordinances of the Lord's house, but it would be absurd for a government to attempt it. These and many other illustrations show that a civil government cannot be Christian. Why will Christians not see this?
CÆSAR AND THE SABBATH.
JESUS said, "Render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's; and to God the things that are God's." Matters civil, relating to man's duty to his fellow-men and to the State, Cæsar, or civil governments, may regulate. With matters which lie between the soul and God, civil governments have naught to do; nor have they aught to do with duties which God has prescribed between man and man. God's prescriptions are spiritual, and civil governments cannot enforce a spiritual law, nor have they any right even to attempt it. They may forbid murder, theft, adultery, and the injury of the reputation of their citizens. But they do not do this because God so commands, nor as being in God's place, but because such laws are in the very nature of things an absolute necessity to the safety of the State and the protection of its subjects. These laws would be a necessity in a government of infidels or Mohammedans.
But the observance of the Sabbath is a duty which man owes to God. It bears his "image and superscription." The word says that it is "holiness to the Lord," and the command is, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." But no civil power can compel man to keep holy anything, for holiness pertains to motives. What utter folly it is, then, for an earthly government to attempt to enforce the commands of God. It cannot be done, and to attempt it will inevitably result in bringing contempt upon, and weakness to, the government, persecution upon the sincerest souls who oppose such unholy attempt, and insult to God.
OUR QUESTION CORNER.
By Editor
120. WHAT DEFILES.
PLEASE explain the following in the SIGNS: "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man." Matt. 15:11.
The text means just what it says. The seat of all sin, of all impurity, of all defilement, is in the heart. If the heart be right, if the whole being be submitted to God, doing God's work, no outward thing can defile the man. But in that case the man will love the things which God loves; he will care for the soul which God has redeemed; he will not defile or destroy the body which Christ has purchased, by wrong habits of eating or drinking or dressing or living. In short, he will eat and drink to glorify God. 1 Cor. 10:31.
Religious Control of Government
By Editor
If any great political party of this country should single out certain things in the dogmas and practices of great churches, and use all their influences against these purely religious dogmas, petition Congress against them, and seek by coercive influences and boycott to turn people from the church, what would these religious bodies say? They would denounce such work as persecution and tyranny and subversive of all the liberty guaranteed by our government. And they would justly so declare. But is not the church doing this very thing? is she not seeking by her combined influence, by petitions, by boycotts, by coercive measures, to compel the secular government to yield to religious control? And is it not intolerance, oppression, tyranny from the source where it should be least expected?
WHAT IS THIS BUT SPIRITUALISM?
By Editor
HERE are a few sentences from the closing part of the opening address at the Parliament of Religions, by Dr. John Henry Barrows. After bidding “thrice welcome” the representatives of the various faiths he said:—
It seems to me that the spirits of just and good men hover over this assembly. I believe the spirit of Paul is here, the zealous missionary of Christ, whose courtesy, wisdom, and unbounded tact were manifest when he preached Jesus and the resurrection beneath the shadows of the Parthenon. I believe the spirit of the wise and humane Buddha is here, and of Socrates, the searcher after truth, and of Jeremy Taylor, and John Milton, and Roger Williams, and Lessing, the great apostle of toleration. I believe that the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, who sought for a church founded on love to God and man, is not far from us, and the spirits of Tennyson and Whittier and Phillips Brooks, who looked forward to this Parliament as the realization of a noble idea.
And in all this we suppose there was sweet accord; but in those pleasing sentiments lay the very foundation of the false religions of the world and the very dethronement of Christ and his truth.
THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
By G. E. Fifield
BY ELDER G. E. FIFIELD.
To UNDERSTAND the workings of the mystery of iniquity in the present century, it is necessary that we have freshly before us just what that mystery is, as contrasted with its opposite, the "mystery of God;" we must also in our minds review the working of these mysteries in the past. For this cause I must briefly allude to the principles of these "mysteries," and to their previous history.
The mystery of God, into which the angels still desire to look, is the mystery of a wisdom past finding out, and of a love that passes knowledge. It is the mystery of divine humiliation, "God manifest in the flesh," not simply in Christ's flesh, but in ours through him, God thus stooping to conquer and lift us up; the mystery of a humiliation, therefore, that proves in the end a most wonderful exaltation, lifting Christ to unfathomed heights, giving him a name that is above every name that is named either in earth or heaven, and ex-
alting us with him to heights that transcend our imaginings, given us before the universe of intelligent beings, the honor of those that have come up out of great tribulation and that "follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth." It is therefore the mystery of the kingdom of God,—a kingdom not of intrigue or of force, but of all-subduing love, a kingdom now "within you," that is, in the hearts of his followers, but finally to control and dominate the earth.
NOT OF FORCE BUT LOVE.
Neither now nor in the final consummation is there any such thing as arbitrary force in that kingdom. The subjects are ruled not by an outside law, but by an inside principle, the law of love. They do what they please, because, with his law written in their hearts, they please to do right. Even Christ in the eternal future is not king, because God sets him on the throne and compels obedience.
In a certain sense it is not God who makes Christ king but we, his subjects. Every one of the mighty company, gathered out of every nation, kindred, and tongue, to people the redeemed world, every one, has been won by his mighty love, every one casts his crown at his feet, crowning him Lord of all, and, having no worthiness of his own to boast, he spontaneously joins in the mighty chorus of redemption's mighty song, saying, "Thou art worthy, for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us unto God by thy blood." The twelve apostles are placed according to Christ's promise, upon secondary thrones in that kingdom, not by any arbitrary power, but because they, as coworkers with him, have won secondary places in our hearts. Such is the mystery of God, the mystery of divine government, and of the workings of the divine love.
NOT OF LOVE BUT FORCE.
In contrast with this is the mystery of iniquity, the mystery of intrigue, and of arbitrary force, the mystery which has been more or less fully illustrated in every organization of men, and in every earthly government. It is the mystery of self-exaltation, manifesting itself in a thousand ways in both Church and State; the mystery that led Satan to seek to exalt his throne above the stars of God. The workings of this same mystery transformed the church of Christ from the original brotherhood with no earthly master, into an hierarchy, a pyramid of human life, the laity at the bottom, and above the vast base, the narrowing, ascending series of priests and bishops, and archbishops and cardinals, with the pope at the top, he having climbed up in arbitrary power above all men and earthly kings, unsatisfied still, seeking still to climb into the seat of God and change his laws at pleasure.
Such are the manifestations of the workings of this mystery. Here all is selfishness, and intrigue, and force, and arbitrary power. The feudal system, and especially the practice of subinfeudation, are other marked historical illustrations of the workings of this same mystery, which includes all sin; for whenever the individual forgets the good of humanity and the happiness of the race in the present effort, through murder, theft, adultery, or other sin, to secure some present advantage to himself, there is the mystery of self-exaltation, the mystery of iniquity. Such exaltation has proved the source of all degradation. Each man seeks through intrigue and arbitrary power to exalt himself above his fellows, yet dragging himself down in the race with them,
into this pit of iniquity into which we have fallen, a depth which we cannot here fathom, as our eyes cannot catch the heights from which we came and which God designed us to occupy.
ITS PRESENT WORKINGS.
With this brief consideration of the contrast of these mysteries before us, we are prepared to note the present working of the mystery of iniquity. It is evident from the above that in the professed church of Christ, wherever and whenever the internal working of disinterested, unselfish love is exchanged for the external power of intrigue and scheming, arbitrary force, there and then, and to that degree, has the mystery of God ceased in that church, and the mystery of iniquity has taken its place.
It is unnecessary to inform the intelligent reader that the Papacy, that best of all concrete illustrations of the mystery of iniquity, is still in the nineteenth century, alive and working with increasing power. At the Reformation in the sixteenth century, it received what men fancied was a deadly wound, and so the prophecy declared. Men of a philosophical and optimistical turn of mind have ever since been pronouncing that wound permanently dead, and declaring that the Papacy, though lingering still, must surely soon pass away before the awakening intelligence and broadening knowledge of the masses. So, indeed, it did seem for a time, long enough to blind men's eyes, and get them to looking in that direction, and cause them to cherish with seductive confidence that hope. Now, however, and for some time past, it has in almost every land been getting new hold of the hidden forces of national life, and preparing to turn all to the working out of the great schemes. The keen observer has already, both in Europe and America, begun to wonder at the rapidly healing wound. In Germany, the native land of the Reformation, where, even in the time of Luther, it was said that only one man in ten was a Papist, the Roman Church has for some time been getting a new control, and much has been said about the representatives of the government repeating the journey to Conosa.
In England, since the days of Henry the VIII., professing open hostility to the Roman pontiff, hundreds of Jesuit priests working in disguise in the so-called Protestant Episcopal Church, are seeking, and gradually succeeding, in bringing it back to the forms, that it may finally bring it under the control of the Papacy.
Essentially the same may be said of all Europe, save perhaps in Italy itself; in almost every land the Papacy is gaining power. Nor need we wonder at this exception, for, as has been aptly observed, natural forces increase toward the center, but the unnatural and arbitrary ones decrease.
THE PAPACY IN THE UNITED STATES.
And what shall be said of the workings of this system in the United States? Here, perhaps, more than anywhere else at present, are the deeply laid plots and the gigantic schemes of this masterpiece of worldly and diabolical wisdom being carried out, with a view to future conquests. Just what those schemes are we cannot tell, for in all its workings the Papacy is the mystery of iniquity. This we know, the Roman Church is alive and active here, and all its infernal enginery is at work, for what purposes the student of history need not be told.4The order of Jesuits, that omnipresent eye, and silk-gloved, iron hand of the church, through the coolly laid plots of a hundred years, is now all too frequently beginning to be manifest. Under their influence, even in the time of the war, the armies of the republic were but too largely officered and controlled, and by their minions, after the war was over; for he who, among all men, could best have thwarted their schemes, and placed on a firm basis the liberties of our land, he, the brave hero and patriot, Abraham Lincoln, was foully assassinated. Now they control the elections in fourteen of our States and Territories, and where is the political party that dare hope for success without first bidding for their support. There are numerous military orders all drilled and armed, and under their control. Every Roman Catholic college is a military school where the students arm and drill for some future work. A university goes up in the national capital, and an Italian cardinal comes here to be the American pope, or the recognized head of the Papal church in America. Meanwhile there is certain knowledge of Catholics massed, by church dictation, in the large cities, for the purpose of controlling the elections, and vague rumors of arms secreted in the basement of churches and in nunneries, and of some future uprising. All this is the mystery of iniquity, which seeks not the glory of God and the conversion of souls, but the exaltation of the church and the hierarchy. All this speaks of a hope, at least, cherished in many breasts, and worked and plotted for in secret, that the professed church of Christ may again become externally unified and transformed into the kingdom of this world, the Mississippi itself, the father of American waters, becoming but a tributary to the Tiber.
THE PROTESTANT CHURCHES.
But worse than all this is the fact, everywhere manifest, that the Protestant churches are forgetting, or have forgotten, their high mission, and are passing rapidly through the same transformation that the early church passed through when it ceased to be a manifestation of the mystery of God and became the manifestation of the mystery of iniquity. Everywhere the sufficiency of the internal power of divine love to redeem and regenerate the soul is denied, and everywhere, with headlong haste and often with unscrupulous intrigue, the church is seeking the arbitrary, the external power of the State for its ends. God himself made the mind of man free, as free to do wrong as to do right, and proposes through the plan of redemption to arrive at the sublime result of a universe subdued and brought under the external control of infinite love, without ever once infringing that freedom by the use of arbitrary force. However thoroughly these aspiring clericals may disguise the fact to their own minds, and so fancy, as did the bishops of old, that it is all for the glory of God, it is still patent to every spiritual mind that when they ask for arbitrary power of the State to use for ecclesiastical ends, they are, in the nineteenth as in the fourth century and onwards, seeking to exalt themselves, not only above men, but also above God. This is the mystery of iniquity.
In the eleventh century it is Pope Hildebrand boasting that kings are under his feet and can receive their crowns only from his hand. In the nineteenth century it is the would-be popes of the National Reform ilk boasting that the church holds Congress in its hands, and can do with it what it will.
In the eleventh century it is the church exulting that its human head has the power to compel the repentant king of Germany to stand outside the gate at Conosa three long days, bareheaded and barefooted, in the winter snow, before haughtily receiving him and granting him absolution. In the nineteenth century it is the professed church of Christ seeking to get the power to compel the millions of the American people (every one of them kings according to our theory of government), to stand outside the gates of the World's Columbian Exposition, to receive admission only when and as she permits. The form may be slightly different, varying with the change from monarchical to republican institutions, but the spirit is the same. It is the mystery of iniquity.
Meanwhile, as of old, to every listening disciple comes the same soft voice, sweet and low, and subdued by love, "Ye are not of the world," "even as I am not of the world;" "I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." "Put up thy sword into the sheath." "My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight."
The true church, hearing and heeding the voice, puts on the whole armor of God, and with the inspired apostle of old confesses that the "weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ."
"AS THE MORNING."
By Fannie Bolton
BY FANNIE BOLTON.
["Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord; his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." Hos. 6:3.]
THE shading of the dawn comes gradually,
Now a soft gray tinting the dark, and now
The lightening and lifting of the night,
And now a tender brooding of the morn,
And now a cloud lit with a delicate ray,
And penciled with a streak of gold and rose,
And now a rapid painting of the sky
With hues most glorious, and now again
An atmosphere world wide of throbbing glow,
And then the glistening grass dew scintillant,
And freshening flowers that swing sweet incense out,
And now a twittering chorus, grown at length
To full-piped orchestra of throbbing praise.
So comes the morning, and his goings forth,
The Sun of Righteousness, is like to this.
First some sweet hint of love, so faint it is
It scarce seems like the lighting of our gloom,
Then some revealing of a tenderer thought,
Then some bright penciling of some dark cloud,
Then all the clouds lit with unblemished joy,
Then a full heaven of everlasting love,
God in the zenith of the sky, full orbed,
With healing rays, and then, O matchless love!
We see that through the night, when all seemed lost,
His love was active for our good, as when
The dew was gathering thick upon the grass,
And perfumed kisses weighed the roses down.
Yea, all night long his tenderness distilled,
His wings were o'er the sparrow in the nest,
His brooding love was over all the world.
His dew was on our branch when all seemed dead,
And kept fresh lilies for the opening day,
And brought new roses for our empty hands,
And filled our hearts with new sweet songs of praise.
O Sun of Righteousness with healing wings,
Rise o'er us as the morning evermore,
Till through the night we may with smiles look up,
And know thy dew is falling and thy rose
Is folding for its opening at the day;
Till through the night we yet may gladly turn
To the still east, and say, "Though night is long,
The Sun of Righteousness will surely rise."
And as the morning, so his going forth
Shall surely be; and as we hope, behold!
The first sweet beam of healing light shall come;
And as we praise, the Sun of Love shall rise,
And night be banished 'neath his healing wings.