WH HO shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, ... or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Saint Paul ORD God of Hosts, whose mighty hand L Dominion holds on sea and land, In peace and war Thy will we see Shaping the larger liberty. Nations may rise and nations fall, Thy changeless purpose rules them all. John Oxenham ON NLY through Me!. Above the thunders of the Only through Me can Life's red wounds find healing; Only through Me shall earth have peace again. Only through Me! Love's might, all might transcending, Alone can draw the poison fangs of hate. Yours the beginning! nobler ending Mine a Peace upon earth, and man regenerate ! Only through Me can come the great awakening! Wrong cannot right the wrongs that Wrong hath done; Only through Me, all other gods forsaking, Can ye attain the heights that must be won. Can we not rise to such great height of glory? Shall this vast sorrow spend itself in vain? Shall future ages tell the woeful story Christ by his own was crucified again? John Oxenham ORD, what a change within us one short hour L Spent in thy presence will avail to make! What heavy burdens from our bosoms take; What parched grounds refresh, as with a shower! We kneel, and all around us seems to lower; We rise, and all the distant and the near Stands forth in sunny outline, brave and clear! We kneel, how weak! we rise, how full of power ! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others, that we are not always strong; That we are ever overborne with care; That we should ever weak or heartless be, |