Patience is powerful; He that o'ercometh Hath power o'er the nations! "As torrents in summer, "So hearts that are fainting Grow full to o'erflowing, And they that behold it Marvel, and know not That God at their fountains Far off has been raining! "Stronger than steel Is the sword of the Spirit; Swifter than arrows The light of the truth is, "Thou art a phantom, Fearful and formless; Day dawns and thou art not! "The dawn is not distant, Nor is the night starless; Love is eternal ! God is still God, and Christ is eternal!" INTERLUDE STRAIN of music closed the tale, IN of music closed the tal A low, monotonous, funeral wail, That with its cadence, wild and sweet, Made the long Saga more complete. "Thank God," the Theologian said, "I stand without here in the porch, I hear the bell's melodious din, I hear the prayer, with words that scorch I hear the sermon upon sin, With threatenings of the last account. And all, translated in the air, Reach me but as our dear Lord's Prayer, And as the Sermon on the Mount. "Must it be Calvin, and not Christ? Or holy water, books, and beads? "I know that yonder Pharisee Thanks God that he is not like me; I only stand and beat my breast, And pray "Not to one church alone, but seven, The voice prophetic spake from heaven; And unto each the promise came, Diversified, but still the same; For him that overcometh are The new name written on the stone, "Ah! to how many Faith has been No evidence of things unseen, |