fore; more. Only not at death, for death, Our love no broken ties. Now I know, is that first breath We shall roam on the banks of the river of Which our souls draw when we enter peace, Life, which is of all life centre. And bathe in its blissful tide, Be ye certain all seems love, And one of the joys of life shall be Viewed from Allah's throne above; The little boy that died. Be ye stout of heart, and come -Miscellaneous. Bravely onward to your home. I raise What a strange, delicious amazement is death, The song of thanks and praise, * * For those high instincts, To be without body, and breathe without Those first affections, breath; Those shadowy recollections, I should laugh for joy if you did not cry: Which, be they what they may, Oh, listen! Love lasts! Love never will die. Are yet the fountain light of all our day. * -Edwin Arnold. Truths that wake As the tree And perish never, and have power to make Stands in the sun and shadows all beneath, Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence. So in the light of great eternity Hence in a season of calm weather, Life creates the shade of death. Though inland far we be, The shadow passes when the tree shall fall, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea But love shall reign forever over all. Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, So not alone we stand upon the shore, And see the children sport upon the shore, 'Twill be as though we had been there be And hear the mighty waters rolling everWe shall meet more we know, - Wordsworth. Than we can meet below, And find our rest like some returning dove, Haply the river of time Our home at once with the eternal love. As it grows, as the towns on its marge Fling their wavering lights A host of angels flying, On the wider, statelier stream, Through cloudless skies impelled, May acquire, if not the calm Upon the earth beheld Of its earlier mountainous shore, A pearl of beauty lying, Yet a solemn peace of its own. Worthy to glitter bright, And the width of the waters, the hush In Heaven's vast halls of light. Of the dim expanse where he floats, They spread their pinions o'er it, Freshening its current and spotted with That little pearl which shone foam With a lustre all its own, As it draws to the ocean, may strike And then on high they bore it, Peace to the soul of the man on its breast : Where glory has its birth, As the pale waste widens around him, But left the shell on earth. As the banks fade dimmer away, As the stars come out, and the night wind The spoiler set the seal of silence, Brings up the stream But there beamed a smile Murmurs and scents of the infinite sea. So fixed, so holy, from that cherub brow --Matthew Arnold. Death gazed and left it there. He dared not steal The signet ring of Heaven. Build thee more stately mansions, O, my soul ! We saw thee come, we saw thee go, As the swift seasons roll, Brief guest in this our earthly land. Leave thy low vaulted past, Where from ? where to? We only know, Let each new temple, nobler than the last, From God's own hand to God's own hand. Shut thee from Heaven with a dome more vast, We shall go home to our father's house, Till thou at length art free, To our Father's house in the skies ; Leaving thy outgrown shell by life's unrestWhere the hope of souls shall have no ing sea. blight, -Holmes. NO. 28. UNITY OFFICE, 175 DEARBORN ST. CHICAGO. LOVE TO GOD AND LOVE TO MAN. SONGS FOR REVIVAL TUNES. INDEX OF TUNES. Almost Persuaded.-G. H., 75 30 America.-F. Sq., 30 (S. S., 89–H. T., 784) 46 Auld Lang Syne.-F. Sq., 104 (H. T., 839) 47 Bethany.-F. Sq., 23 (H. T., 621). 22 Coronation.-G. H., 101 1 and 39 Dare to Be a Daniel.-G. H., 158. 31 Give Methe Wings of Faith.-G. H., 186.... 41 Glory, Glory, Hallelujah... 40 Go Bury Thy Sorrow.-G. H., 61 29 Happy Greeting 7 He Leadeth Me.-G. H., 51 32 Hold the Fort.-G. H., 14.. 35 Home, Sweet Home.-F. Sq., 5. 45 I Love to Tell the Story.-G. H., 39 37 I Need Thee Every Hour.-G. H., 3 17 Just as I Am.-G. H., 54. 19 Let the Lower Lights Be Burning.-G. H., 65 .. 16 Old Hundred.-F. Sq., 131 (H. T., 2.). 2 One More Day's Work for Jesus.-G. H., 28 26 Onward, Christian Soldiers.-G. H., 175.. 14 Pass Me Not.-G. H., 27. 4 Rescue the Perishing.-G. H., 18.. 21 Rest for the Weary.-S. S., 74 23 Ring the Bells of Heaven.-G. H., 19... 3 Robin Adair.-F. Sq., 76. 13 Rock of Ages.-G. H., 86 . 20 Shining Shore.-S. S., 52 (H. T., 852).. 6 Sunday School Army.-S. S., 72. 34 Sweet By-and-By.-G. H., 204. 33 and 42 Sweet Hour of Prayer.-G. H., 77.. 11 Tell Me the Old, Old Story.-G. H., 37... 15 and 36 The Crowning Day.-G. H., 416. 44 The Great Physician.-G. H., 56 The Light of the World is Jesus.-G. H., 41... 28 The Precious Name.-G. H., 72... 18 There is a Fountain.-G. H., 91. 5 Triumph By-and-By. 289. 43 Vesper Hymn.-H. T., 163 10 What a Friend We Have in Jesus.-G.H.,29.9 & 12 What Shall the Harvest Be ?-G. H., 719 24 Whosoeve. Will.-G H., 10.. 38 Wonderful Words of Life.-G. H., 282 27 Work, for the Night is Coming.-F. Sq., 116 (S. 25 :-G. H., S. 95) With the help of friends to select the tunes and write new words, we print a few songs in which well-known music is set to singing our Liberal Faith. Not a few wide-circling hymn tunes have been echoes and adaptations caught from unchurched music: much more, why not thankfully borrow from friends in neighbor churches the swing, the lilt, the leading rhythm which they have found heart-stirring? We do not think they will grudge this use of them, even in the cases where old words have been altered to better serve our thought. Of the forty-seven songs, nineteen are new, fifteen are more or less changed from old forms,-some of them very slightly,—and the rest are old and unchanged. In selecting tunes the chief question has been, What is best known and easily caught ? What can people readily join in from memory or by ear ? “Who among us will use them ?" Now and then a Conference or Grove meeting will use them; now and then a Unity club, while waiting for late comers; now and then a Sunday-school; now and then the summer picnic; oftenest of all, perhaps, the group clustering about the home piano; and if they grow familiar, they will sing themselves as we walk or work. In indicating tunes, "G. H.” means the Moody and Sankey collection of “Gospel Hymns”, fou parts consolidated in one volume; “F. Sq." means the “Franklin Square" collection of popular songs (Part I); “S. S." means the little Sunday-school collection called “Sunny Side;" and "H. T." means th , revised “Hymn and Tune Book”, published by the American Unitarian Association. Double referenc are sometimes given. E. E. M. INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 28 14 43 3 7 16 18 38 30 1 2 24 29 31 32 11 15 37 36 Away with all thought that is selfish. Onward, Christian soldiers.... 39 |
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