WATCHMAN! WHAT OF THE NIGHT? (continued) And Faith, replumed for nobler flight, SHALL GREET THE MORNING LIGHT!" FOR THE MEN AT THE FRONT Lord God of Hosts, whose mighty hand In Peace and War Thy Will we see Nations may rise and nations fall, Thy Changeless Purpose rules them all. When Death flies swift on wave or field, O, hear a people's prayers for those For those who weak and broken lie, Great Healer, to their beds of pain Come, touch, and make them whole again! [Five million copies of this hymn have been sold and the profits given to the various Funds for the Wounded. It is now being sung all round the world.] FOR THE MEN AT THE FRONT (continued) For those to whom the call shall come O, hear a people's prayers for all To every stricken heart and home, And hear a people's prayers, for faith For those who minister and heal, And spend themselves, their skill, their zeal— And in Thine own good time, Lord, send IN TIME OF NEED Better than I, Thou knowest, Lord, All my necessity, And with a word Thou canst it all supply. Help other is there none Save Thee alone; Without Thee I'm undone. And so, to Thee I cry,— O, be Thou nigh! For, better far than I, Thou knowest, Lord, All my necessity. CHRISTS ALL! Our Boys Who Have Gone to the Front ("Be christs!"-was one of W. T. Stead's favourite sayings. Not "Be like Christ!"-but -"Be christs!" And he used the word no doubt in its original meaning,-anointed, ordained, chosen. As such we, whose boys have gone to the Front, think of them. For they have gone, most of them, from a simple, high sense of duty, and in many cases under direst feeling of personal repulsion against the whole ghastly business. They have sacrificed everything, knowing full well that many of them will never return to us.) Ye are all christs in this your self-surrender,True sons of God in seeking not your own. Yours now the hardships,-yours shall be the splendour Of the Great Triumph and THE KING'S "Well done!" |