MR. THOMAS HINTON, the subject of this sketch, was one of the principal men of Wausau, Wisconsin, at the time of this occurrence, having been supervisor for years. He was fifty-three years of age. He had a sawmill about five miles from his home in Wausau. He was a noted infidel.
One fine morning in August, 1865, he started to go to Stevens Point, a distance of forty miles, on a large lumber-wagon, the seat being very high in order to make room for the supplies he would get for his mill and family. He had gone on his journey but a short distance when a terrible darkness of mind came over him, and he was in a dreadful state of mental feeling. It continued to oppress him more and more until he had reached a hotel twelve miles from home. He concluded it best to stop there a while in hopes that his feelings would change.
O, how he wished to meet some one with whom he could converse and receive help! But in vain. It was a controversy between him and his God. He stayed there all night, and in the morning started on his journey again.
But these feelings came upon him more severe than the previous day. His next move was to get on his knees on the high seat (the horses stopping), and he began to call upon God for help. Finally he told the Lord that if He would relieve him, he would confess that Jesus was the Son of God. At that instant he felt relief.
He seated himself again and started on. The first man he met after arriving at Stevens Point, was an old associate of his at the card-table. This man invited him to go and have a game of cards, adding an oath. O, how terrible it sounded to Mr. Hinton! He was now out of harmony with the man, and with card-playing, too, and at once turned away. Soon after his return home, I called at his house, knowing nothing of what had happened; but I noticed he had the large family Bible open on his lap. Evidently he had been reading it prior to my coming.
He said to me, "I am a changed man." "Yes," said his wife, "Mr. Hinton is converted." He related the above experience. When he was through, I said: "Now, Mr. Hinton, you will have to confess publicly that Jesus is the Son of God, or you will lapse into darkness again. We will have prayer-meeting to-morrow night at our church, and you come out and pay your vow." He said, "I will do it."
Both Mr. and Mrs. Hinton came. He gave in his testimony, which was presented in so humble, penitent a spirit that it was very impressive.
As soon as the good news came abroad, many sinners were awakened, and cottage meetings were held for them. A revival was carried on for several weeks, and souls were converted, and much good done. Mr. Hinton was always present at the meetings, and always manifested a humble, thankful spirit, giving the praise to God for deliverance, and wondering at the long-suffering of God in sparing him so many years in sin and rebellion. He said he felt that this was his last call. He had a pious mother, who had been dead for many years. He thought her prayers were answered.
The next December, as he was helping to bring a load of hay from his meadow, he was thrown from the load, by the breaking of the binder, onto frozen ground, receiving an injury which terminated in death the following May. Thus that call proved to be his last. O, may we be encouraged to pray for our children! It may be that after we pass away, if not in our lifetime here, results will come that will prove our prayers found a lodgment on heaven's altar. May the Lord Jesus help us to hold on by faith, believing that His promises never fail.
Germany's Social Conditions
GERMANY has no fewer than seventeen recognized and distinct political parties that have elected members to her Reichstag. This fact alone is sufficient to show that her social organism is one great volcano of unrest.
Germany is adopting our English word "bosses" to designate a class of men that is seeking to control and manage her politics. The work of these "bosses" corresponds quite closely to the "boss rule" that holds sway in this country.
The Center Party is Germany's largest, and with the possible exception of the Social Democrat, it is the most influential. It is the Catholic party, and openly avows that it is working for the best interests of the Catholic Church. It is rather unique to find the most influential political party in this professedly Protestant State openly affirming, in its platform, that it is upholding "the constitutionally recognized independence and rights of the [Catholic] church."
The Social Democrat Party is the most active, the most skilfully organized, and at the same time it is feared by the government the most, of all the political organizations. It is needless to say that this Socialist Party is actively and vigorously opposed to the Center or Catholic Party. This fact throws the government and the Catholic party together in their common fight against the Socialist. Hence the growing influence of the Church of Rome over the government of Protestant Germany is perfectly natural.
For more than a thousand years the rulers of Germany were successively chosen to hold the empty title of "emperor of the Holy Roman Empire." Is history about to repeat itself? and is Germany, even now, well along toward doing her part in fulfilling the Bible prophecy that the Papacy will establish her dominion over all the kings of the earth? The political strength that the Papacy is acquiring in all the governments of earth is truly significant.
While the Center Party of Germany stands openly for the advancement of the interest of the papal church, the Social Democrat Party is avowedly the party of the poor man. They speak for the poor man as against the rich, and advocate an international union of the working men that will overthrow the existing order, and bring to an end the domination of the rich and the aristocratic. In this respect the Socialists of Germany are very much like their brethren in all the other countries of the world.
The high cost of living was one of the much discussed questions in the recent political campaign in Germany, and the discussion is not ended yet. The high cost of living is coming more and more to be a leading theme for discussion in every part of the world. And while some assign one cause, and others assign another, yet upon this topic, if not on some of his other doctrines, it is quite apparent that the Socialist presents some facts that are hard to go around. He thinks the high cost of living is largely due to the fact that combinations of capital fix the price and demand a toll for their private coffers from the sale of all the commodities of life. This enables a few men to have fabulous fortunes, while a great part of humanity is suffering for the necessities of life.
While Germany has her full share of internal difficulties that are causing great anxiety to her rulers, she is also distressed because of her fears of international conflicts. Much has been said, during recent years, in regard to the hysterical fears of being invaded by the Germans, that agitate the minds of the English. But the Briton's fear of the Germans is not one bit greater than the dread in the German bosom, that England may drive them into war. There seems to be an indescribable fear in this respect in both nations; and each month, as it passes, brings some new occasion for the alarms of war.
Every one knows that the turbulence of Germany is merely characteristic of the unrest that pervades the world. The foundations of all governments of this earth are being undermined, and any one who looks can see it. Many different remedies are suggested, but the one and only thing that can meet the situation is the second coming of Christ. And the prophecies show clearly that this selfsame turbulent condition of all the nations of earth is an unmistakable sign that the great event is near.
T.
The assembly hall, Nanking, at the time the general assembly of the Republic of China held its first meeting, January 28. The automobiles are those of the president and some of his followers.
The World-Wide Study of Earthquakes
ROBERT MALLET, an Englishman whose career belongs to the middle of the last century, is regarded as the first great seismologist in the modern sense of that term. The seismologist devotes himself to the study of earthquakes and their causes; and the fact that we had no great students in that field till half a century ago, should show us, even if history were silent, that it is only in recent years that earthquakes are becoming sufficiently frequent to give rise to seismology as a distinct and separate science.
While Mallet studied the subject sixty years ago, yet as a distinct and independent branch of knowledge, seismology, or the study of earthquakes, is not more than thirty years old. But during that thirty years, and particularly the last part of it, there has been very great activity. And a strong effort is being made now to establish stations entirely around the world, in order that every earthquake wave may be followed in its course and studied. It is significant that earthquakes should have so increased during the last half century as to cause this world-wide study concerning them.
Two thousand years ago earthquakes were of very rare occurrence. Indeed, any man who is fifty years old or more can readily think back to the time when he was a boy, and consider how tremendously the occurrence of earthquakes has increased during this short span. And while science is seeking to learn all it can from the physical side, it is assuring to know that there was One who could say with authority nearly two thousand years ago:
Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. Luke 21:10, 11.
The Master inspired Luke to record in advance His utterances concerning the "great earthquakes" that would finally mingle with the "fearful sights and great signs" that shall come from heaven. But in a much earlier time the same Master had inspired Isaiah to say:
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, wo unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. And it shall come to pass, and he that fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before His ancients gloriously. Isa. 24:16-23.
Let us seek to take in the majesty of the situation. Standing in the days when the earthquake was a thing practically unknown, the prophet declares that the day will come when the "foundations of the earth do shake," when it is "moved exceedingly," and when it "shall reel to and fro like a drunkard." Isaiah must have been carried into the very council-chamber of the Most High, and permitted to gaze in a long, clear vision upon the very times in which we now dwell. Otherwise he could never have had the courage to pen such stirring predictions in that time when nature was all tranquillity.
To him who does not know the meaning of the increasing frequency of earthquakes, the facts must be very disquieting; for there is absolutely no power in man to help himself when the "foundations of the earth do shake." But there is no fear in the breast of the one who knows the Lord who foretold these earthquake conditions nearly three thousand years ago. He knows they are coming, and he knows what they portend, and the event they foreshadow so fills his soul with delight that all thought of dread or fear is completely banished. The same one who could foretell these mighty upheavals of earth, has also said:
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. Ps. 91:5-11.
He who has learned to know Him who has power to shake the earth, is not filled with fear when He is doing it. God's Word furnishes the only satisfactory solution to the earthquake mystery. And in dissolving the mystery, it also dissipates the awful dread and fear.
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Aeroplanes Locate Submarines
In military maneuvers with aeroplanes in France it has been ascertained that at a height of six hundred feet or thereabout they can locate a submarine vessel thirty feet under the water. It is interesting to note the experiments that are conducted in the interest of the war game.
Austria’s Collapsible Wireless Outfit
The Austrian army corps has devised a sort of telescopic or collapsible wireless telegraph outfit, and built a special automobile on which to carry it. It carries with it six men besides the chauffeur, and has a speed of twenty-five miles an hour.
A Radical Statement
By Editor
(From the Rochester Evening Times of February 15, 1912)
JUDGE E. H. GARY is chairman of the board of the United States Steel Corporation, a position more important than that of President. He is the directing head of this greatest corporation in the world. In a recent speech, Judge Gary made the following remarkable declaration:
Unless capitalists, corporations, rich men, powerful men themselves, take a leading part in trying to improve the conditions of humanity, great changes will come, and they will come mighty quickly, and the mob will bring them.
Judge Gary's statement was part of a speech delivered to the New York Lehigh Club. Judge Gary made it very plain that he thought the people generally are "evincing a readiness to take things into their own hands." He also stated that the "spirit of unrest" was not confined to the United States, but was world-wide.
"Things are being said," he declared, "very similar to things said just before the French Revolution. I tell you that the spark may yet make a flame, and that soon. I have an especial reason for saying this, a reason that affects you and me. Men of great power and influence in the affairs of the country, have all of us done the fair thing? It is imperative that something be done to improve the condition of mankind. Can not we ourselves do something to improve that condition? I say that it is not only good morals, but good policy likewise, to improve those conditions. I appeal to you all in your dealings with men under you to do the square thing."
Had these statements been made by some radical agitator, a cry of indignation would have gone up from certain quarters, that he was trying to array class against class. But Judge Gary certainly is not trying to do anything of that sort. Neither would he make such radical statements lightly. There can be no question that he is impressed with the seriousness of the situation, and that he intended to sound a warning.
A tornado swept over portions of New York and New Jersey on April 7. One person at least is known to have been killed, and over one hundred are reported to have been injured by the twisting storm. Thirty and forty years ago, when these tornadoes first began to make their appearance on the plains of Kansas, Nebraska, and elsewhere in the Middle West, we were told in all seriousness that such storms had always swept those prairies, but there was no one there to report them, and consequently nothing was known about them. It was further stated that they could come only in the intensely hot weather of the summer. We were all assured that they would never appear in the Atlantic country, unless it might be on the rarest occasions, and then only in the very hottest of the summer weather, when intensely heated centers would set these whirlers in motion. But these human theories are not in harmony with the facts. Each year shows an increasing number of these and other storms, and they are even coming in the winter and early spring. The storms that mark the mighty commotions in nature, the war-mad nations, the turbulent conditions of society, the vices and the injustice that are cursing the land, are all pointed out in God's Word as things that are to characterize very strikingly the last generation that shall live on this earth before the second coming of Christ. Watch the events as they pass, and study the prophecies of the Word of God, and see how accurately they come together.
Roman Catholics and Socialists.—In an editorial on the defeat of Socialists in Milwaukee, the Western Watchman (Roman Catholic) says:
Catholics are always found on the side of law and order, and they will have none of Socialism. In Westphalia they abandoned their strike when they saw that Socialists were directing it. In Cologne it was thought that a break would be made in the Catholic ranks at the last Reichstag election. Even the priests were apprehensive. But the vote for the Center was larger than ever before, and Cologne was never more antisocialistic.
But the editor finds a dead fly in the ointment of his law and order Catholics; he is assured that the Catholic "Poles almost unanimously voted the Socialist ticket." And so the editor says: "We are sorry for the Poles. It is a shame that their clergy have them not under better control."
He then advises young priests to let the subject of Socialism alone, and leave its discussion "to old and wise heads," and continues: "It is idle to discuss the question whether a Catholic can be a Socialist; it is enough to say whether he can or not, he should not be." And the editor declares: "There will never be another Socialist administration in Milwaukee. The United States Congress has seen its last Socialist member. They will soon be as thoroly discredited as the Know-nothings and Knights of Labor. The salmon of Columbia River die after their first spawn—Socialists disappear after their first victory."
But our Catholic friends must not be too sure. The two will unite after a while.
The University of California regents are predicting a deficit. They are providing for the education of 5,724 students of the university, a registration exceeded by only one other American university, Columbia. While Columbia has an income of over three millions a year, the University of California income is estimated for the next year at $1,710,695, which must provide for building operations, Lick Observatory, the university farm at Davis, farmers' institutes, and the varied agricultural and scientific work of the university, as well as for the teaching of the thousands of students at Berkeley. It hopes for benefactions of friends.
The Krupp steel works at Essen, Germany, have recently invented steel plates for safes and vaults, of such extraordinary hardness that they are practically drill proof, even to the oxy-acetylene method. It took about four hundred pounds of compressed oxygen and nearly that amount of acetylene gas and over eight hours of time to bore a hole three inches in diameter through a plate one and one half inches thick.
The Bible and Sunday Laws
THE Bible is the Protestant standard of faith and practise. In that Book the Sabbath question is neither obscure nor difficult. The fourth commandment stands in the heart of the Decalogue, and bears the signature of Jehovah as no other one of the commandments does. Christ's teachings and example concerning the Sabbath are plain and unequivocal. They constitute His commandments on the Sabbath question, and He declares that those who love Him will keep His commandments.
Men will not keep the Sabbath, nor any other day as the Sabbath, unless moved by love and guided by conscience. There was never any reason for interference on the part of the civil law, and the results of such interference are increasingly evil. Put the issue on the basis of the Bible, and let the behests of conscience direct, and Sunday laws will die a natural death. Wiser legislation ought to hasten their removal. Let us have protected rights to rest, and not enforced idleness on a specific day, under the false claim that not to remain idle on a particular period of twenty-four hours is a crime. This the evolution of Sunday law now demands.—A. H. Lewis, D.D., LL.D.
The Crisis Between the United States and Mexico
By Editor
The difficulty between this nation and Mexico seems to grow more serious every day. The United States sent an ultimatum to the Mexican authorities in regard to protecting the lives and property of foreigners in that republic. They have returned word to this nation that they do not consider themselves under obligation to protect any one in their territory; and at the present writing it looks very much as if the United States would be under the necessity of intervening in Mexico, in order not only to protect her citizens who are residing there, but to protect herself against the other nations. For if this country does not protect the citizens of the other powers who are residing in Mexico, it will be only a little while until Germany, England, France, and the other great nations of the old world will feel the necessity of stepping in to do so, and thus the time-honored Monroe doctrine, if sustained, would bring this nation into conflict with the old-world powers. But more serious than anything else in connection with it, is the complication that Japan has occasioned. Of course there are those who are anxious to see the United States go to war with Mexico, for they think the result would be that Mexico would be annexed to this country, and then it would give a free overland road down to the Panama Canal, and various strategists think that this is quite essential; but the United States has been long-suffering in this controversy, and if she is finally driven to take steps against Mexico, the civilized world will certainly say that Mexico is altogether to blame. It seems, however, that every effort is being put forth to settle the difficulty by peaceable means, and we sincerely hope that it may be accomplished.
On April 13 an immense tidal wave is reported to have swept the southern shore of Lake Erie. At Ashtabula a steamer was separated from her moorings and thrown against one of the largest freight schooners on the lake, smashing away much of the light upper works of the freighter.
Miss Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, died at her home in Maryland on April 12. She is one of the best known philanthropic women of the nation and of the world.
HOME AND FIRESIDE
By Mary W. Paulson, M.D.
Dangers in Dust
THE care of dust becomes an important factor in the hygiene of the home. Dust is also a great menace to the populace in our large cities. It is looked upon as inconvenient and annoying, but not as an evil, scattering disease. That one of the greatest evils of city life is dust, has been strangely overlooked.
Much can be done and is done to take care of the dust in our cities, such as frequent sprinkling, and care in sweeping streets, and the use of crude oil on the streets. The dust of the country is not nearly so dangerous as that of the city. But in the home, much more would be done to prevent disease if we appreciated what is liable to be in this dust.
An examination of dust, reported by the Department of Health, Buffalo, New York, shows the following:
Dust is filth in its most dangerous form.
Dust pollutes the air we breathe, the food we eat, the liquids we drink, the houses in which we live, and the clothing that covers our bodies.
Dust enters our bodies through the mouth, nose, eyes, and the pores of our skin.
Dust from streets, dwellings, factories, schools, theaters, and other public buildings, has been carefully collected and studied. It is found to contain:
Bits of sand and soil.
Specks of soot and minute cinders, ashes, coal, lime.
Particles from the wear and tear of brick, plaster, cement, and asphalt.
Bits of wood and other plant fibers.
Pollen and fragments of the seeds of plants.
Fine hairs and scales from the bodies of animals.
Lint and other fibers from clothing, carpets, etc.
Dried and pulverized excrements of horses and other domestic animals, birds, dried remains of flies and other insects, and even of human beings.
Waste material in endless variety from all sorts of industries.
Disease germs — bacteria and molds — derived from the excretions of man and animals, particularly the germs of tuberculosis which are coughed up by the victim of consumption and deposited as spittle where they can be rapidly dried and conveyed to healthy persons by currents of air.
If it is disgusting to read of these things, how much worse to take into our lungs the air, and into our stomachs the food, that has been contaminated by the admixture of dust!
Dust may be the cause of many of the diseases that affect the lungs and the digestive organs.
Dust is one of the most dreaded agencies in the spread of tuberculosis.
In the air may be found, under certain circumstances, any variety of germs. This is especially true in a house or room where there has been a diseased person, particularly infectious diseases, such as scarlet fever, ordinary grippe, possibly a cold, measles, pneumonia, and last but not least, tuberculosis.
At Most Dangerous Times
Particularly after a wind, in the streets, or after a dry sweeping of the house, is the air found to be laden with these germs. The old-fashioned method of raising a great deal of dust with the broom and then brushing this dust off from furniture with feather dusters, is a most excellent means of keeping the air filled with infectious germs.
The air is the purest after a rain or heavy snowfall. Quoting again from the Department of Health, Buffalo, New York:
Much of the dust that floats in the air of our houses is brought in as mud on the shoes and the clothing, especially on the skirts of women. Mud is contaminated by the droppings of horses and other animals having access to the streets, and by the expectoration of thoughtless and filthy people. Frequently this mud is left to dry upon the clothing in wardrobes and closets. Then the clothes-brush or the whisk-broom serves to distribute this dried mud through the air of the house until such time as the housekeeper chooses to raise the dust again by the process of dry sweeping. Once in the air, the dust is deposited by slowly settling on all surfaces, especially on cornices, heavy moldings, loose draperies, and other "dust traps" with which our houses are too frequently filled. From these resting-places it is likely to be driven into the circulating air again and again by the use of a dry dust cloth or a feather duster.
The United States War Department has banished the feather duster from all its offices and buildings, because it is believed to favor the dissemination of tuberculosis. It has been said that no city can claim to be quite civilized if it continues to spend the people's money to buy feather dusters for its public buildings.
The dust that you and your neighbor sweep from the door-step, and the clouds that rise from the beating of carpets in your own or your neighbor's yard, is soon returned to you or to your neighbor by the wind.
How to Get Rid of Dust
If you wish to get rid of dust, you must not stir it up, for as soon as it gets into the air it is beyond your control. Before sweeping, if sweeping is necessary, it is well to scatter on the floor some moist material, such as wet sawdust or bits of moistened paper. While sweeping, the windows and outside doors should be opened as widely as possible, and the doors communicating with other parts of the house should be closed. Dusting should always be done with a moistened cloth, which should be washed before it has a chance to dry.
Where the floors are bare, it is unnecessary and most unwise to sweep with a broom. The dust can be much more effectively removed by wiping up with a brush or with a cloth dampened with water or oiled.
Of course, dust should be destroyed or placed in covered receptacles. On no account should it be dumped into the yard or the street or into any open receptacle where it can be dislodged by the wind and distributed to other houses.
Dust Is Partial to Children
Dust falls, like the rain, upon the just and unjust, but in all places the children are exposed to the densest and coarsest part of the dust cloud. They creep or run about in an atmosphere that is much more heavily charged with bacteria, dirt, and other obnoxious refuse than the air breathed by the adults at a height of three or four feet above the children's heads. It is important, therefore, that the floors of rooms in which children live should be so covered that they may be frequently cleaned without flirting dust into the air. Oiled or varnished floors answer the purpose best, and may be covered with rugs or other material that can be easily removed and cleaned out-of-doors. Dogs and cats which have the freedom of the neighborhood are liable to bring into the house, into the hands and mouths of the children, all sorts of unsuspected and indescribable filth. You do not wish your child to play with dirty children. How about the cat and dog?
Many of the most stubborn diseases that afflict the operatives in factories and the employees in offices and stores are due to the polluted air which they are constantly inhaling. You should know what is necessary in order to protect yourself and your premises from dust, and you should demand this protection whenever possible.
Would you allow your neighbor to throw his garbage into your yard? Why should you allow him to defile the air of your house with dust — perhaps with the germs of consumption?
If we realize that dust is poison, we will abhor it. Much of the dust to which we are exposed is poison.
Rule Against Dust
Do not bring mud into the house. To-day's mud is to-morrow's dust.
The housekeeper can do much to prevent the circulation of this dust in the home. First, by providing means at the entrance so that mud and dirt shall not be carried into the house. Secondly, by using methods of sweeping carpets described above, or by the use of vacuum cleaners, or by using an ordinary carpet-sweeper. The wood floors can be wiped up with a damp cloth or by use of floor brushes made for the purpose of caring for polished floors. Such brushes can be cleaned and will take up the dust without scattering it.
The dusting of furniture should not be done with a feather brush or any other duster which scatters the dust, but by means of a soft damp cloth, or by the use of oils on the cloth.
Many a housewife has noticed, after she has swept the house, that she has an attack of sneezing; and many times the constant stirring up of dust each day produces a continual irritation in the nasal passages, so that the housekeeper or some member of the family apparently has a cold, little realizing that the dust has caused it. If you wish to prevent colds in the winter-time, do not stir up dust.
The dreaded disease tuberculosis could be very nearly eradicated if we would take care of our dust, because the germ is carried only after it is dried and enters the dust.
Be Strong
By Charles E. E. Sanborn
By Charles E. E. Sanborn
"O, be courageous, very strong,"
God said to Joshua;
"For I will be your helper,
I'll guide you day by day.
"Turn neither to the right nor left,
But dwell upon My law;
Think thou upon it day and night,
See there what Moses saw.
"Command this people by My word,
Let no man disobey;
For death shall follow him who fails
To follow Joshua.
"Only be courageous,
For I will be thy guide;
Be strong and steadfast, resolute;
I'll never leave thy side."
This selfsame promise stands to-day
For you and me to claim.
Let's up and over Jordan!
We can, in Jesus' name.
