THE APPEAL-AFRICA-INDIA-AND THEIR MARTYRS. This cause is the cause of God against sin and Satan. God is our helper, and Christ, who is our king, is also our leader and commander. Like David, his type and figure, he stands not idly by. He will not be a He is the Captain of our The lions prowl around, their graves to guard, At morn and eve come sounding: yet unscared Cyprian, thy chief of watchmen, wise and bold, Voice of the wise of old! Go breathe thy thrilling whispers now, In cells where learned eyes late vigils hold, Voice of Christ's martyred clan! Now while the church for combat arms, Calmly do thou confirm her awful ban, Thy words to be her conquering, soothing charms. Voice of Christ's fearless saints! Ring like a trump, where gentle hearts Beat high for truth, but, doubting, cower and faint: Tell them the hour is come, and they must take their parts. Let that trump, brethren, arouse the Israel of God, while it shakes with terror and dismay the enemies of the truth. Let it assure us that the Lord of hosts is with us, and that these walls of Jericho, these walls of China, these Moslem revolts, these Satanic outbursts of the great adversary, who sees that he has but a short time-shall only redound to the greater glory of our Immanuel, and the greater triumph of his saints. Bide thou thy time! Wait the bright Advent that shall loose thy chain! When thrones are trembling, and earth's great ones quail, Are there not even now signs of an approaching harvest? Has not the germ of many a seed manifested its vitality and sprouted up in the blade, the ear, and the ripened grain, o'er many a palmy plain. God's way is now most surely in the East. India and China are now the centre of divine operations. God had made them a spectacle to the world. The Ark of God is in the field, Like clouds around the alien armies sweep; And can it be thou liest awake, otchman, tossing on thy couch of down, |