THE PRINCE OF LIFE

O, Prince of Life, Thy Life hath tuned All life to sweeter, loftier grace!

Life's common rounds have wider bounds Since Thou hast trod life's common ways.

O, Heart of Love! Thy Tenderness
Still runs through life's remotest vein;
And lust and greed and soulless creed
Shall never rule the world again.

O Life of Love!-The Good Intent
Of God to man made evident,-
All down the years, despite men's fears,
Thy Power is still omnipotent.

O Life! O Love! O Living Word!-
Rent Vail, revealing God to man,-
Help, Lord! Lest I should crucify,
By thought or deed, Thy Love again.

JUDGMENT DAY

Every day is Judgment Day,
Count on no to-morrow.

He who will not, when he may,
Act to-day, to-day, to-day,

Doth but borrow

Sorrow.

DARKNESS AND LIGHT

There is darkness still, gross darkness, Lord, On this fair earth of Thine.

There are prisoners still in the prison-house,
Where never a light doth shine.

There are doors still bolted against Thee,
There are faces set like a wall;

And over them all the Shadow of Death
Hangs like a pall.

Do you hear the voices calling,

Out there in the black of the night?
Do you hear the sobs of the women,
Who are barred from the blessed light?
And the children,-the little children,-
Do you hear their pitiful cry?
O brothers, we must seek them,
Or there in the dark they die!

Spread the Light! Spread the Light!
Till earth's remotest bounds have heard
The glory of the Living Word;

Till those that see not have their sight;
Till all the fringes of the night
Are lifted, and the long-closed doors
Are wide for ever to the Light.
Spread-the-Light!

O then shall dawn the golden days,
To which true hearts are pressing;
When earth's discordant strains shall
blend-

The one true God confessing;

When Christly thought and Christly deed
Shall bind each heart and nation,

In one Grand Brotherhood of Men,
And one high consecration.

INDIA

A land of lights and shadows intervolved,
A land of blazing sun and blackest night,
A fortress armed, and guarded jealously,
With every portal barred against the Light.

A land in thrall to ancient mystic faiths,
A land of iron creeds and gruesome deeds,
A land of superstitions vast and grim,
And all the noisome growths that Darkness
breeds.

Like sunny waves upon an iron-bound coast, The Light beats up against the close-barred doors,

And seeks vain entrance, yet beats on and on, In hopeful faith which all defeat ignores.

But-time shall come, when, like a swelling tide,

The Word shall leap the barriers, and The Light

Shall sweep the land; and Faith and Love and Hope

Shall win for Christ this stronghold of the

night.

LIVINGSTONE

To lift the sombre fringes of the Night,
To open lands long darkened to the Light,
To heal grim wounds, to give the blind new

sight,

Right mightily wrought he.

Forth to the fight he fared,

High things and great he dared,
He thought of all men but himself,
Himself he never spared.

He greatly loved—

He greatly lived

And died right mightily.

Like Him he served, he walked life's troublous

ways,

With heart undaunted, and with calm, high

face,

And gemmed each day with deeds of sweetest

grace;

Full lovingly wrought he.

Forth to the fight he fared,

High things and great he dared,
In His Master's might, to spread the

Light,

Right lovingly wrought he

He greatly loved

He greatly lived

And died right mightily.

Like him he served, he would not turn aside; Nor home nor friends could his true heart

divide;

He served his Master, and naught else beside, Right faithfully wrought he.

Forth to the fight he fared,

High things and great he dared,
In His Master's might, to spread the
Light,

Right faithfully wrought he.
He greatly loved-

He greatly lived

And died right mightily.

He passed like light across the darkened land,
And dying, left behind him this command,
"The door is open! So let it ever stand!"
Full mightily wrought he.

Forth to the fight he fared,

High things and great he dared,

In His Master's might, to spread the

Light,

Right mightily wrought he.

He greatly loved

He greatly lived

And died right mightily.