4 Who can faint while such a river Ever flows their thirst to assuage? Love, which, like the Lord, the giver, Never fails from age to age. 5 Round each habitation hovering, See the cloud and fire appear! For a glory and a covering, Showing that the Lord is near: 6 Thus deriving from their banner Light by night and shade by day, Safe they feed upon the manna Which he gives them when they pray. 181. L. M. Whittier. Christianity. 1 O fairest-born of Love and Light, Yet bending brow and eye severe On all which pains the holy sight, Or wounds the pure and perfect ear,-- 2 The generous feeling, pure and warm, Which owns the rights of all divine, The pitying heart, the helping arm, The prompt self-sacrifice, are thine! 3 Beneath thy broad, impartial eye, How fade the lines of caste and birth! How equal in their sufferings lie The groaning multitudes of earth! 4 Still to a stricken brother true, Whatever clime hath nurtured him; As stooped to heal the wounded Jew The worshipper of Gerizim. 5 In holy words which cannot die, In thoughts which angels leaned to know, Christ gave thy message from on high, Thy mission to a world of woe. 6 That voice's echo hath not died; From the blue lake of Galilee, From Tabor's lonely mountain-side, It calls a struggling world to thee. 182. C. M. H. Martineau. Christian Equality. 1 All men are equal in their birth, Heirs of the earth and skies; All men are equal, when that earth Fails from their dying eyes. 2 God greets the throngs who pay their vows In courts their hands have made; And hears the worshipper who bows Beneath the plantain shade. 3 'Tis man alone who difference sees, And speaks of high and low; And worships those, and tramples these, While the same path they go. 4 O, let man hasten to restore To all their rights of love! In power and wealth exult no more, In wisdom lowly move. 5 Ye great! renounce your earth-born pride; Ye low! your shame and fear; Live, as ye worship, side by side; Your brotherhood revere. 183. C. M. Bulfinch. "That They May Be One." 1 Was it in vain that Jesus prayed For those he came to save, When darkly o'er his path was laid The shadow of the grave? 2 Hath Jesus loved and prayed in vain? O doubting heart, be still! Yet holds the Lord his glorious reign, Despite of wrong and ill. 3 Though nations with their battle-cries Profane the Almighty's name, Though bigots to the offended skies Their own wild wrath proclaim,--