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I WAS RECENTLY READING
"THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC" Our American Republic - Very good words in this
song even as written in 1861 as our country was engaged in a civil war :
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He
is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible
swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening
dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows
of steel;
“As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal”;
Let the Hero, born of woman,
crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the
hearts of men before His judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching
on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ
was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let
us live to make men free;
[originally …let us die to make men free]
While God is marching
on.
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, He
is honor to the brave;
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,
Our God is marching
on.
chorus
sung after each stanza:
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on. |
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IT IS NOT WE WHO CHOSE
TO AWAKEN OURSELVES, BUT GOD WHO CHOOSES TO AWAKEN US.
'Let' the Spirit of the Living God lead you.
I'm just a friend that found a few road signs along 'the way'. I'm also looking for friends that will share the road
signs that they have found along their way. Such is the Body of Christ as the Lord, the Master Craftsman, builds His
Sanctuary in us. He doesn't have to do this building. He wants too!
Thomas
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The Mayflower Compact
IN THE
NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord
King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the
Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King
and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Partsof Virginia ... IN WITNESS
whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland
the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.
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