A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

James Hastings • SECTION 206

Section 206

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5o8 FRUITFULNESS THROUGH DEATH

hero-death, and victory's fire-chariot carrying men to the Immortals, shall never be thine. I pity thee; brag not, or I shall have to despise thee.^

The great obdurate world I know no more, The clanging of the brazen wheels of greed, The taloned hands that build the miser's store, The stony streets where feeble feet must bleed. No more I walk beneath thy ashen skies, With pallid martyrs cruelly crucified Upon thy predetermined Calvaries: I, too, have suffered, yea, and I have died ' Now, at the last, another road I take Thro* peaceful gardens, by a lilied way. To those low eaves beside the silver lake, Where Christ waits for me at the close of day. Farewell, proud world ! In vain thou callest me. I go to meet my Lord in Galilee.

* Carlyle, Cromwell's Letters and SpeecheSy i. 89.

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