In the rim of the Light he laid him,
Repented of his sin.

"I wotted not! I wotted not!

Dear Master, take me in!"

And as he lay there sorrowing,

Up came the felon crew.

They flailed him with their dead bodys, They heeded not his rue.

They flailed him with their dead bodys, They heeded not their spleen.

"I wotted not! I wotted not!

Dear Master, take me in!"

And the Word made manifest,

"Lay down thy load where I abode,

And I will give thee rest!

"And ye,—no more hunt Iscariot!

He repents him of his sin.

And never a soul that repenteth

But he may enter in.

"This Day the Door is opened

That shall never close again,
And never a soul that would come in
Shall seek to come in vain."

And the dead soul of Iscariot

Was born again that night;

For the Lord Christ came dead souls to claim And lead them into Light.

And the souls of the unburied,

When they looked upon His face,

Were cleansed of sin and entered in
To His redeeming grace.

So, by that wonderful great Love
Which highest heaven extols,-
To Mother Earth their dead bodies,
And unto Christ their souls.

PROFIT AND LOSS

Profit?-Loss?

Who shall declare this good-that ill?—
When good and ill so intertwine
But to fulfil the vast design

Of an Omniscient Will?

When seeming gain but turns to loss,-
When earthly treasure proves but dross,—
And what seemed loss but turns again
To high, eternal gain?

Wisest the man who does his best,
And leaves the rest

To Him who counts not deeds alone,
But sees the root, the flower, the fruit,
And calls them one.

FREE MEN OF GOD

Free men of God, the New Day breaks
In golden gleams across the sky;
The darkness of the night is past,
This is the Day of Victory.

For this our fathers strove,

In stern and fiery love-
That men to come should be
Born into liberty-

That all should be-as we are-Free!

Free men of God, gird up your loins,
And brace you for the final fight!

Strike home, strike home for Truth and Right!
-Yet bear yourselves as in His sight!
For this our fathers fought,

This with their lives they bought—
That you and I should be

Heirs of their liberty

That all should be-as we are-Free!

Free men we are and so will be;
We claim free access unto Him,
Who widened all the bounds of life,
And us from bondage did redeem.
Let no man intervene,

Or draw a veil between

Us and our God, for He

Would have His people free,

And we would be-as Thou art-Free.

Free men of God, your Birthright claim!

Our fathers won it with a price.

They paid in full to axe and flame,

Nor counted up the sacrifice.

This is our heritage,

And here we do engage,

Each man unto his son

Intact to pass it on.

So shall they be-as we are-Free!

Our Sure Defence, in times of stress,
Thy gates stand open, wide and free,
When men provoke and wrongs oppress,
We seek Thy wider liberty.

With loftier mind and heart,
Let each man bear his part!
So-to the final fight,

And God defend the right!
We shall, we must, we will be-Free!

TREASURE-TROVE

Lord Christ, let me but hold Thy hand

And all the rest may go.

For nothing is, but only seems,

And life is full of idle dreams,

Until Thyself we know.

The whole wide world is nought beside

The wonder of Thy love.

And though my state be mean and strait,

Give me but heart to work and wait,

And I have Treasure-Trove.

THE GATE

"A little child shall lead them."

I trod an arduous way, but came at last
To where the city walls rose fair and white
Above the darkening plain,—a goodly sight.
And eagerly, while yet a great way off,

My eyes did seek the Gates-the Great White
Gates

That close not ever, day or night, but stand Wide as the love of Christ that opened them. But nought could I discern of gate or breach, The wall stood flawless far as eye could reach.

But when I drew in closer to the wall,
I saw a lowly portal, strait and small;
So small, a man might hardly enter there,
Low-browed and shadowed, and close-pressed
to earth-

A very needle's eye-scarce visible.

I looked and wondered. Could this trivial

way

Be the sole entrance to the light of day? And as I stood perplext, a clear voice cried,"Come! Enter in! The Gate is open wide."

And while I stood in doubt, there came along
One of earth's mighty ones-a conqueror
Of Kings. He looked for gates that should
swing wide

To meet his high estate and welcome him.