NOT IN VAIN.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 303, 29 September 1888, Page 3

NOT IN VAIN.

Stop, poet, stop, and sing no more ! What, ia thy faith so small Then pray against thy unbelief, Rise to a nobler call! No ! through the nineteen centuries past , We hear the grand retrain : " Our Saviour, our Redeemer—Lord, Christ has not' died in vain !" , ' ii "In vain ?" Mako^anßwer, holy Baints Who see His face in bliss ; Who trod wittivHim the path of lifeWould your reply be this ? Make answer, ye who died for Him , In throes of bitter pain, Ye martyrs, conquerors over death, ' * Christ has not died in vain !"' "In vain?" Reply, ye tongues of sJaves . By Christian countries freed; Reply, who once were slaves of sin, ■ ;'; ' Who now are free indeed, j The preaching, of,the,cross of Christ, „ Blessed, not cursed to us, , 1 , , , ; The teaching of the Father's love ; r - Has changed the old world thus. , r 'Tis ours the sin ; not ours the "right To judge our brother-men," v But lead them on to higher things, We please Him better then; ' * , t Let thy, weak trust not injure theirs, Thy^faithless words restrain ;" None ever cried in deepest, woe To Christ-^and cried in vairi. ■ In ancient days, a prophet fled " , * , Byf aithless terror H crossed : ' ' ' - ' ' Alone, in love to God,' he deemed ~*~-' ,Heistood— and all waslost!>'),^ „,«.; - '^ ', ' What said the Omniso^ent father; then ? - ' .', • ''Seven thousand ser^ve.mVstilliJi, t. ' • and 'poor their lot'inay Bei* 3 ' **" ' - -> '/ But mme 'their heart" and/will.*'' -'l.' -, <, •'-> ,^ : -: ">»n ha ht% t iU' *-vyw sl, x x. \\"^ -7 >'" „, Dost ask ,why, misery extets-iM . r z 'Why, crime "and'greed Btill stay, '* i '^ si - -', ?When ,Ohristi«lEM6 v e"ohould* have -prevailedi n yi Qod's.thoaghts a^e.far.atbove, our, thoughts,! ,;J "Hi^ways'we.cannoMrace,^^ •"+<* >" „«! • '^' ButV,e shall und'ersUnd'tKSni aU'. I *-^ V 4 ' " 1 t'' <^4When';.we t b'eholdtHis^facei"^sf,-"'^s ' >^*l.n ... t This only* seems tabe Hiajwill^ «?" ', -^ A .-That^tfsh'ouldm^Qib^nf l ;^*V;k i';~~^Astatidtfat'Hirside I , l afiachere|?^ , & il 4? : " £ 1 u- rplTheiendless'jifeibeSin^ s ' f^kti&sztbitpe *>w Hu&W* sMrnpCdpublHis justice §be£ t £.'£rf& ' Bu^onljbrW thetffloYe^^^-fef^ya' SH TK'at He m i < aVbfinmb:e]wMa eWr^baokW' 1 ? £*■' ?~'?iFqi! .who"m He> w.ep^soreVfeisM&lt^Mi?,^ ff 5 tal'eM-toJthKcare-C^rtte?^^^ «f^ AU'arejHis chJd^en'jlbUiSaed'nowff^ijSiS