When we read or hear of King James, of England, we are apt to think of the Bible. This is because it was by his order that fifty learned men of his kingdom revised the English translation of the Bible, and produced the version now most commonly used. But he was not the great or good man that might be supposed by those who think of him only as having caused the Bible to be translated for the people. That was indeed a very great work, but here is an incident which shows how much more of the real character of the king than does his famous order for Bible revision:—
King James was very fond of hunting, too fond for his own good and the comfort of his retainers. He would choose some part of his country for a grand “hunting bout,” and there lead the chase day after day, through muddy fields and dripping woods, across wide stretches of heather land and tangled swamps, over ditches and fences, from the death of one poor hare to that of another, until his troop of followers were exhausted, as well as the patience and supplies of his subjects who entertained him.
His favorite hound was named Jowler. In one of these “hunting bouts” Jowler was missed. The king was greatly vexed at his loss, but the next day Jowler came back to his master with a piece of paper tied to his collar, on which was written:—
Good Mr. Jowler, we pray you speak to the king—for he hears you every day, and so doth he not us—that it will please his majesty to go back to London, or else the country will be undone; all our provision is spent, and we are not able to entertain him any longer.
The fact that God uses men in furthering his purposes in the earth is not evidence that the general characters of such instruments are pleasing to him, or that they will be saved in his kingdom. We have notable examples in Balaam, the recreant prophet, and Saul, the first king of Israel. “The Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men;” but, unless they individually recognize their need of a Saviour, and develop individual characters in the likeness of the character of the humble Nazarene, they can have no place in the everlasting kingdom. “Except a man be born again [margin, ‘from above’], he can not see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3.
“PROTESTANT” DANGERS.
In a recent address before the American Protective Association at Metropolitan Temple, San Francisco, Ray Palmer, a Baptist clergyman of repute, is reported to have said:—
“I would not willingly turn this country over to any Protestant denomination, not even to the Baptists, of whom I am a member; for I fear human nature. Unlimited ecclesiastical power is dangerous in the hands of any man or any set of men. But that power is not sought by Protestantism or by any other religious body except the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church.”
With the first sentence we have no fault to find; it is true. With the second we agree also if by unlimited ecclesiastical power Mr. Palmer means a hierarchy clothed with civil power, or authorized by state authority; in other words, a power which comes by a union of church and state.
But Mr. Palmer’s last sentence is a gross mistake. There are as many Protestants working for this very thing in this land to-day as there are Roman Catholics. What means the National Reform Association and its work for the last thirty years? Its sole object is to make this a religious government, a so-called “Christian” government in its fundamental law, a government which will result in the disfranchisement—according to its representatives’ own words—of every logically consistent infidel. This means every one who will not indorse its regime. But the National Reform Association names itself Protestant.
What means the indorsement of this association and its principles by the W. C. T. U.? What means the organization of the American Sabbath Union working for a legal religious sabbath, anathematizing those legislators who will not work for it?
What means this vast movement of Christian Endeavorers in connection with the Good Citizenship or Christian Citizenship agitation embodying the principles of church and state and National Reformism? And all are “Protestant.”
What means the decision of the Supreme Court that “this is a Christian nation,” hailed with such joy by many of our religious papers?
What means the decision of Congress, forced by “Protestant” petitions, that Sunday is the sabbath of the Lord and is a proper thing to legislate upon, declared in 1892? This was signed by a “Protestant” President.
If the A. P. A. are truly ambitious to protect American freedom, there is as much need that they should watch Protestants as Catholics; for the latter are but running their train of the centuries over the track laid by the former.
There are true “Protestants;” thank God for that. And they need to be awake. Dangers menace on every side. The only safe place is absolute, unswerving, unflinching fidelity to the principles of Gospel and religious liberty. And even that is too late; liberty, to maintain her existence now, must reverse the actions of the Supreme Court and of Congress.
A Surfeit.
In the “Open Letters” department of the Advance, one contributor expresses a wish that something might be said to “stop the tendency to ritualism and the observance of days.” He particularizes in the following pointed language:—
“We have had in many of our Congregational churches a surfeit of ‘Lent,’ and ‘Good Friday,’ and ‘Holy Week,’ and particularly of ‘Easter.’ This pagan word has a singular charm for many Congregational ears, as well as for those of the far-gone ritualists and others. And so we have ‘Easter hats’ and ‘Easter gloves’ and ‘Easter—grand Easter—balls!’ What is Easter made to commemorate? If anything, in our day, the resurrection of our Lord. Well, then, for the pagan word let us substitute its proper Christian name. Then we may have ‘resurrection hats’ and ‘resurrection gloves’ and ‘grand resurrection balls.’ If this result should follow, the craze of ‘Easter’ would die out, and we should be satisfied with the observance of the weekly good old Lord’s day.”
The writer of the foregoing very pertinent sentiment does not go to the root of the matter. If by the expression “the good old Lord’s day,” he meant the day which the Lord calls his day (Ex. 20:10; Isa. 58:13), the criticism would have some force. But, as he evidently means the Sunday institution, his position is decidedly inconsistent. Sunday, as a nominal Christian institution, stands upon the same foundation as do Lent, Good Friday, Holy Week, and Easter. They are all founded upon tradition, and bolstered up by the decrees of Rome. They all spring from the same root of apostasy, namely, the assumed authority of the church to establish traditionary festivals and doctrines not sanctioned by the word of God. To attempt to lop off the minor branches of this apostate tree, while fostering and forcing the growth of that which has already extended beyond all others, is the height of inconsistency.
THE OLD WOMAN'S RAILWAY SIGNAL.
The most effective working force in the world in which we live is the law of kindness. Some time ago we read of an incident that will serve as an illustration. It was substantially this:—
A poor old woman lived on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway where it passes through a wild, unpeopled district of Western Virginia. She was a widow, with only one daughter living with her, in a log hut near a deep, precipitous gorge, crossed by the railway bridge. Here she contrived to support themselves by raising and selling poultry and eggs, adding berries in their season, and other little articles. She had to make a long, weary walk of many miles to the town where she could sell her produce. The railway passed her cabin to this town; but the ride would cost too much of the profits of her small sales, so she trudged generally to the market on foot. A conductor came finally to notice her walking by the side of the line or between the rails, and, being a good-natured, benevolent man, would often give her a ride to and fro without charge. The engineer and fireman were also good to the old woman, and felt they were not wronging the interests of the railway company. And soon an accident occurred that proved they were quite right.
In the month of March the rain descended, and the mountains sent down their rolling, roaring torrents of melted snow and ice into this gorge near the old woman's hut. The flood arose with the darkness of the night, until she heard the crash of the railway bridge as it swept from its abutments and dashed its broken timbers against the craggy sides of the precipice. The rain fell in a flood, and the darkness was deep, and the storm howling. In another half hour the10express train would be due. What could she do to warn it against the awful destruction it was approaching? No light she could make of tallow or oil would live a moment in that tempest of wind and rain. Not a moment was to be lost; but her thought was equal to the need. She cut the cord of her only bedstead, and shouldered the dry posts, side-pieces, and head-pieces. Her daughter followed her with their two wooden chairs. Up the steep embankment they climbed, and piled all the household furniture upon the line a few rods before the black, awful chasm, gurgling with the roaring flood.
The distant rumbling of the train came upon them just as they had fired the well-dried combustibles. The pile blazed up into the night, throwing its red, booming light a long way up the track. In fifteen minutes it would begin to wane, and she could not revive it with green, wet wood. The thunder of the train grew louder. It was within five miles of the fire. Would they see it in time?
She tore her red flannel gown from her in a moment, and, tying it to the end of a stick, ran up the track, waving it in both hands, while her daughter swung round her head a blazing chair post a little before. The lives of a hundred unconscious passengers hung on the issue of the next minute. The great red eye of the engine burst upon her as it came round a curve. The train was at full speed; but the whistle sounded, and the brakemen wrestled at their leverage with all the strength of desperation. The wheels ground along the rails slower and slower, until the engine stopped at the decaying fire. It still blazed enough to show them the edge of the black abyss into which the train would have plunged had it not been for the old woman's signals. They did not stop to thank her first for the deliverance. The conductor knelt down by the side of the engine; the engine driver and brakemen and passengers came and thanked God for the salvation of their lives, and earnest prayers went up into the dark heavens in thanksgiving to him who seeth in darkness.
The good woman was richly remembered by the railroad company, which henceforth liberally provided for her comfort. Kindness always pays.—Selected.
ITEMS FROM A CATHOLIC PAPER.
JAMES R. RANDALL, a special Washington correspondent of the Catholic Mirror, writes under date of May 27:—
“Cardinal Satolli will carry away with him precious memories of the Jesuit Fathers of Washington, who have, in their cordial, comprehensive, and characteristic way, proved, at Georgetown University and Gonzaga College, such boundless love and devotion for the holy see and its delegated special representative. What the Jesuit Fathers do at all, they do with all their might and all their hearts and all their minds, and never did the church need them more than at this time. How any Catholic, in any station, can help admiring and cherishing the company of Jesus, is beyond my understanding.”
In an article in the Mirror of May 30, entitled “Burial of a Pope,” there occurs this item of detail:—
“The day after the pope dies, as many cardinals as happen to be in Rome meet to confer. The oldest of their number, the dean of the college, presides; they swear to preserve the utmost secrecy concerning all their proceedings; they renew their oaths of allegiance to the holy see, binding themselves to defend and guard the rights, prerogatives, and temporal possessions of the church (up to the effusion of blood); then they discuss questions of immediate urgency, listen to reading of the laws governing the election, and hear the camerlengo’s report of his business. The congregation reassembles each day, its numbers constantly increasing by the arrival of cardinals from a distance.”
The Rome correspondent of the Mirror, under date of May 3, says:—
“It is stated that Mgr. Agliardi, the papal ambassador to Russia for the czar’s coronation, is the bearer of an autograph letter from his holiness representing to his majesty the necessity of ameliorating the condition of Catholics in Russia, and mentioning the points upon which reforms are particularly desirable.”
OUR EXTRAORDINARY BEER TRADE.
THE brewers, who are now holding their national convention [just past], direct attention to the fact that they have a quarter of a billion of invested capital, and that since 1876 their annual sales have increased “from $8,500,000 to $36,000,000.”
Striking as these figures are, they are less so than the statistical exhibit made by the Treasury Department. Official figures show that the consumption of malt liquors in 1876 was 308,336,000 gallons; of 1886, 717,745,000 gallons; of 1895, 1,043,292,000 gallons.
Thus in three decades the annual consumption of beer has tripled. The present enormous output of a thousand million gallons annually gives a consumption officially stated at 14.95 gallons per head of population, against only 6.83 gallons per head in 1876. Thus the consumption per head has a little more than doubled in the same time that the total consumption has tripled.—New York World.
There has been a falling off in distilled liquors and wines, but of the former it is but eleven-hundredths of a gallon per head, and of the latter about one-fourth of a gallon per head. The beer influence is mightily felt in politics, but more in morals.
THISTLES OR LILIES?
By Julia H. Duffie
BY JULIA H. DUFFIE.
In the farthest nook of a garden wide,
A thistle and lily grew side by side;
In the same soil their roots, the same air did breathe,
The same dew and sunshine nurtured their leaves:
Yet one was a thistle, whom none might caress;
The other a lily, to comfort and bless.
Now, why thus unlike should these strangely grow?
In conditions the same such contrast to show?
One drew from the earth, from the air, and the rain,
Just that which was meet to make thistles so plain;
The other chose that which might sweetness impart,
The perfume and beauty to soothe the sad heart.
From the store they collect each to others impart,
To pierce and to wound, or encourage the heart;
Then let us all gather the just things and true,
Of good report, lovely, on these fix our view.
O, let's not be thistles, but lilies, my dears!
Let's carry glad smiles and drive away tears!
There are plenty to carry the thistle's sharp stings,
And like its light seed give them swift-flying wings,
To grow and bring forth their sad harvest again,
Bringing discord and anguish, sorrow and pain;
Who then will bear forth the sweet fruitage of love,
The fragrance of kindness sent from above?
Battle Creek, Mich.
UNNATURAL DRINKS.
THE following from the New York Voice, written by a physician, will speak for itself:—
EDITOR OF THE Housewife’s Club: In a recent Voice there appeared a contributed article that I fear may mislead many of its readers. The article I reply to says: “The cocoas—chocolate preparations, usually agree—are but slightly stimulant.”
Nature wants no stimulant. Slight stimulants pave the road to ruin.
Cocain is one of the worst stimulants. Let us have none of it. Nature requires only food and water for the stomach. When we leave the simplicity of nature, we enter a maze of error from which men never escape.
Tea and coffee are stimulants. You can not overthrow the monstrous evils of intoxicating drinks, while you use them yourselves. Tea and coffee can intoxicate. Tea cigarettes are fast coming into use, and cause intoxication.
More than four-fifths of our bodies are made of water. Let this be taken pure and as nature demands. Let healthful living secure pure blood, steady nerves, strong muscles, a clear brain inspired by truth, and hearts inspired by love for humanity and pity for its woes.
A. O. FULLER, M.D.
Austinburg, Ohio.
MAKING BUBBLES.
CHILDREN love to make soap bubbles; it is twice as much fun if the bubbles are big ones, strong enough not to break when they are floated to the floor. Bubbles twice as large as your head, or as large as the largest kind of football, says the New York Recorder, can be easily blown by any one who knows how to mix up the soap-bubble material. To make these large bubbles, take a piece of castile soap about as large as a walnut. Cut it up in a cup of water and then add a teaspoonful of glycerine. Stir well and blow from a small pipe. To make pink bubbles, add a few drops of strawberry juice, and to make yellow ones put in a little orange juice.
But quite pretty bubbles may be blown by mixing a very small quantity of clean soap and water, using a spool instead of a pipe. Castile or ivory soap is good. Some may not be able to procure the pipe and glycerine, but all can procure a spool and a little soap and water.
HOUSEHOLD RULES.
The following rules were formulated by a lady for the guidance of her own personal conduct, but they are good for general use:—
1. We may be sure that our will is likely to be crossed to-day, so prepare for it.
2. Everybody in this house has an evil nature as well as ourselves, and therefore we are not to expect too much.
3. To learn the different temper of each individual.
4. To look upon each member of the family as one for whom Christ died.
5. When any good happens to any one to rejoice at it.
6. When inclined to give an angry answer, to lift up the heart in prayer.
7. If from sickness, pain, or infirmity we feel irritable, to keep a very strict watch over ourselves.
8. To observe when others are so suffering, and drop a word of kindness and sympathy suited to their wants.
9. To watch for little opportunities of pleasing, and to put little annoyances out of the way.
10. To take a cheerful view of everything.
11. In all little pleasures which may occur to put self last.
12. To try the soft answer which “turneth away wrath.”
13. When we have been pained by an unkind word or deed, to ask ourselves, “Have I not often done the same and been forgiven?”
14. In conversation not to exalt ourselves but to bring others forward.
15. To be very gentle with the younger ones and treat them with respect, remembering that we were once young.
16. Never to judge another, but to attribute a good motive when we can.
17. To compare our manifold blessings with the trifling annoyances of the day.
If anything farther is needed, it may be found in this one sentence of our Saviour, “All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” Matt. 7:12. This covers the whole ground, without giving details.
TWO ENDS.
When a small boy, I was carrying a not very large ladder, when there was a crash. An unlucky movement brought the rear end of the ladder against a window. Instead of scolding me, my father made me stop, and said very quietly, “Look here, my son, there is one thing I wish you to remember; that is, every ladder has two ends.” I never have forgotten it, tho many years have gone. Do we not carry things besides ladders that have two ends? When I see a young man getting “fast” habits, I think he sees only one end of the ladder, the one pointing toward pleasure, and that he does not know that the other is wounding his parents’ hearts. Ah, yes, every ladder has two ends, and this is a thing to be remembered in more ways than one!—Sel.
ECUADOR
BOLIVAR freed Ecuador from the Spanish yoke, as he did Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Peru; and it was one of the five states which formed the United States of Colombia under his presidency; but the priests had such a hold upon the people that liberty could not live in an atmosphere they polluted, and the country lapsed into a state of anarchy, which has continued ever since. The struggle has been between the progressive element and the priests, and the latter have usually triumphed. It is the only country in America in which the Romish Church survives as the Spanish left it. In other countries popish influence has been destroyed, and the rule which prevails everywhere—that the less the people are under the control of that church the greater their prosperity, enlightenment, and progress—is illustrated in Ecuador with striking force.
One-fourth of all the property in Ecuador belongs to the bishop. There is a Catholic Church for every 150 inhabitants; of the population of the country ten per cent. are priests, monks, or nuns, and 272 of the 365 days in the year are feast-days or fast-days.
The priests control the government in all its branches, dictate its laws, and govern their enforcement, and rule the country as absolutely as if the pope were its king. As a result, seventy-five per cent. of the children born are illegitimate. There is not a penitentiary, house of correction, reformatory, or benevolent institution outside of Quito and Guayaquil; there is not a railroad or stage-coach in the entire country, and until recently there was not a telegraph wire. Laborers get from $2.00 to $10 a month, and men are paid $2.25 for carrying 100 pounds of merchandise on their backs 285 miles. There is not a wagon in the republic, outside of Guayaquil, and not a road over which a wagon could pass. The people know nothing but what the priests tell them. They have no amusements but cock-fights and bull-fights; no literature, no mail routes, except from Guayaquil to the capital (Quito), and nothing is common among the masses that was not in use by them 200 years ago. If one-tenth of the money that has been expended in building monasteries had been devoted to the construction of cart roads, Ecuador, which is naturally rich, would be one of the most wealthy nations, in proportion to its area, on the globe.
There was once a steam railroad in Ecuador. During the time when Henry Meiggs was making such an excitement by the improvements he was making in the transportation facilities of Peru, the contagion spread to Ecuador, and some ambitious English capitalists attempted to lay a road from Guayaquil to the interior. A track seventeen miles long was built, which represents the railway system of Ecuador in all the geographies, gazetteers, and books of statistics; but no wheels ever passed over this track, and the tropical vegetation has grown so luxuriantly about the place where it lies, that it would now be difficult to find it.
In 1885 a telegraph line was built connecting Guayaquil with Quito, the highest city in the world; but there is only one wire, and that is practically useless, as not more than seven days out of a month can a message be sent over it. The people chop down the poles for fire-wood and cut out pieces of the wire to repair broken harness whenever they feel so disposed. Then it often takes a week for the linemen to find the break, and another week to repair it. In the government telegraph office I saw an operator with a ball and chain attached to his leg—a convict who had been sent back to his post because no one else could be found to work the instrument. A young lady took the message and the money. There is a cable belonging to a New York company connecting Guayaquil with the outside world; but the rates are extremely high, the tariff to the United States being $3.00 a word, and to other places in proportion.
Ecuador, with about 1,000,000 inhabitants, has only 47 post-offices. There is not a newspaper printed outside of the city of Guayaquil, and the only information the people have of what is going on in the world is gained from strangers who now and then visit the country, and from a class of peddlers who make periodical trips. The streets of Quito are used as water-closets, in daylight as well as in dark, and are never cleaned from one year's end to another. Altho Ecuador is set down in the geographies as a republic, it is simply a popish colony, and the power of the Vatican is nowhere felt so completely as here. Not long ago a law was in force prohibiting the importation of any books, periodicals, or newspapers, without the sanction of the Jesuits. All the schools are controlled by the church, and the children know more about the lives of the saints than about the geography of their own country. There is not even a good map of Ecuador.—Capitals of South America.
DATA FROM JAPAN.
The public prominence of Japan and the Japanese gives additional interest to some facts and figures published by the Imperial Census department of that country in its recent official report. According to this source the country, on December 31, 1893, had a total population of 41,388,313, occupying a territory of 382,329 square kilometers (1 kilometer equals 274 acres). The average density of population was 108 for each square kilometer, the highest percentage being found in the province of Osaka, which reported 691, while Hokkaido, the most northern province, reported only 4 inhabitants to each square kilometer.
Foreigners in Japan numbered only 9,633, and of these 5,373 were Chinese, 1,787 English, 430 German.
To every 1,000 inhabitants there were 8.66 marriages, and the annual percentage of divorces was 2.82; so that there were about 3 marriages to every divorce. This ratio is explained on the ground of the ease with which divorces can be secured in Japan, especially as the teaching of Confucius recommends a divorce in the case of marriage that remains without issue during the first three years.
The female population of Japan is 20,481,848, and the male 20.906,465; and it is especially noted that the number of unmarried “old maids” is exceptionally small.
The wages earned by the Japanese laborer present some interesting data for comparison. The best paid are the tailors who make European clothing, who earn .49 yen a day, or something less than 25 cents, as a yen is about the equivalent of a half dollar. Next comes the stone mason, with .36 yen; carpenters, cabinet-makers, blacksmiths, with .13 yen; painters, .29 yen; while the lowest wages are paid to the farm laborers, namely, .19 yen to the men and .12 yen to the women. Workers in special lines, such as the weaving of silks, earn in addition to their keep, amounting to perhaps 1.50 yen, monthly wages of 4.83 in the case of men, and 3.30 in the case of women. The average working day is from 12 to 16 hours; and as Japan has no Sunday, a laboring man can count on 350 working days a year. The cheap labor and the skill of the Japanese workingman explain the rapid development of Japanese trades and manufacture, which now already have entered into sharp competition with the products of England, Germany, and France in eastern markets. The export trade of Japan amounted to 66,141,044 yen in the year 1884, and to 197,775,247 yen in 1893. The imports too had increased proportionally, consisting largely of supplies for the army and navy. And yet the annual exports exceed the imports by fifteen or twenty million yen. —Selected.
ADVENTIST CONFERENCE IN SWEDEN.
By H. P. Holser
SWEDEN is a field of more than usual interest in the history of the second advent movement. While Wm. Miller and his colaborers proclaimed with such power the nearness of the end of the world, and the close of the 2,300 prophetic years in 1844, the same great truths were preached by little children in Sweden. The time for this proclamation had come; and in some way or other it must be made.
In the days of Christ, when the scribes and Pharisees, the professed teachers of the people, failed to fulfil special prophecies then due, little children burst forth singing the very proclamations of the prophecy. Had they not done so, the stones would have cried out. Luke 19:40. The Spirit of the Lord which is in the prophetic word was present, and moved on the children to proclaim what the word contained for that particular occasion. The word of God is living and self-fulfilling, hence the same will be repeated in some form whenever a special announcement is due. This was true in the great Reformation, was true of the first angel's message in Sweden, and will be true of every word of God yet to be fulfilled.
This preaching in Sweden was accomplished through children too young to read; they announced hymns, quoted many scriptures, and spoke with a solemn voice. It was evident that God was speaking through them. The effect was marked; many were converted, and endured bitter persecutions.
The Adventist Conference at Eskilstuna, a city near Orebro, where some of those converted were imprisoned, naturally called to mind these early and remarkable experiences. Elder J. N. Loughborough, who was in the great advent movement of 1843-44, was present, and delivered thirteen lectures on the experiences of those days and the subsequent history of Adventists. An interesting feature of these lectures was the well-developed fact that the same time message, based on the same prophetic periods, was simultaneously and independently proclaimed in more than a dozen parts of the world. The more the history of this work is studied, the more evident it becomes that the hand of the Lord has been in it all the way along. Instead of fading12and weakening with time, this fact is confirmed with increasing evidence as we extend this work. As we enter new fields, we find new witnesses. This shows that no one people fully knows how extensively the Advent proclamation has been made; and hence the end may be much nearer than it is generally believed to be.
The conference at Eskilstuna continued from June 9 to 21, and was attended by 125 delegates, representing 22 churches. Besides the regular conference business, many discourses were given on various features of the Advent faith. Dr. Waggoner was present, and conducted studies in the epistle to the Hebrews. Nearly all the laborers in this field were present, and reported a good degree of progress.
An interesting feature of the work in Sweden is the large amount of Advent literature circulated. In proportion to the population, more publications have been sold here than in any other conference. Eight new colporters were recruited during the meeting, so that 38 are now engaged in this work. As many as fifty thousand copies of one book have been sold.
The conference was remarkable for the kind spirit in all the deliberations, and the thoughtful study of the word. The Lord wrought in a special manner in this field in the beginning, and may we see the same in the close of the Advent message.
H. P. HOLSER.
Fredrikstad, Norway.
THE HOUR OF TEMPTATION.
By Mrs. E. R. Lewis
BY MRS. E. R. LEWIS.
“Because thou hast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.” Rev. 3:10.
In the hour of sore temptation,
That shall come to try the world,
When the fiery darts of Satan
At thy waiting ones are hurled,
Keep me, O my Saviour, keep me
From the danger of that hour;
Let no evil then befall me;
Keep thou me from Satan’s power!
Blessed Saviour, thou hast promised,
And thy word can never fail;
Those who keep thy word of patience,
Shall against the foe prevail.
Yes, thy grace is all-sufficient
For each faltering, fainting one:
Who will heed the Lord’s injunction,
“Hold fast, for I quickly come.”
