4 Thy kindness to our fathers shown, In weal and woe, through all the past, Their grateful sons, O God, shall own, While here their name and race shall last. 434. 8 & 6s. M. Heber. Prayer for Our Country. 1 From foes that would our land devour; From guilty pride and lust of power; From wild sedition's lawless hour; From yoke of slavery; 2 From blinded zeal, by faction led; From giddy change, by fancy bred; From poisoned error's serpent head; Good Lord, preserve us free! 435. L. M. Whittier. The Day of Freedom. 1 O Thou, whose presence went before Our fathers in their weary way, As with Thy chosen moved of yore The fire by night, the cloud by day! 2 When, from each temple of the free, A nation's song ascends to heaven, Most holy Father, unto Thee Now let our humble prayer be given. 3 Sweet peace be here; and hope and love Be round us as a mantle thrown, As unto Thee, supreme above, The knee of prayer is bowed alone. 4 And grant, O Father, that the time Of earth's deliverance may be near, When every land, and tongue, and clime, The message of Thy love shall hear;-- 5 When, smitten as with fire from heaven, The captive's chain shall sink in dust, And to his fettered soul be given The glorious freedom of the just. 436. C. M. * American Slavery. 1 The land our fathers left to us Is foul with hateful sin; When shall, O Lord, this sorrow end, And hope and joy begin? 2 What good, though growing might and wealth Shall stretch from shore to shore, If thus the fatal poison-taint Be only spread the more? 3 Wipe out, O God, the nation's sin, Then swell the nation's power; But build not high our yearning hopes, To wither in an hour! 4 No outward show nor fancied strength From Thy stern justice saves; There is no liberty for them Who make their brethren slaves! 437. 7s. M. J. R. Lowell. Anti-Slavery Hymn. 1 Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And with leathern hearts forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free.