2 For man has striven, ages long, With faltering steps to come to Thee, And in each purpose high and strong The influence of Thy grace could see. 3 He could not breathe an earnest prayer, But Thou wast kinder than he dreamed, As age by age brought hopes more fair, And nearer still Thy kingdom seemed. 4 But never rose within his breast A trust so calm and deep as now;-- Shall not the weary find a rest? Father, Preserver, answer Thou! 5 'Tis dark around, 'tis dark above, But through the shadow streams the sun; We cannot doubt Thy certain love; And Man's true aim shall yet be won! 188. 6s. M. Anonymous. Behold, He Cometh. 1 Hark! through the waking earth, Hark! through the echoing sky, Herald of freedom's birth, There comes a glorious cry. 2 The triple chains that bind Fall from the weary limb, And from the down-crushed mind, As soundeth that high hymn. 3 Unto man's waiting heart It saith,--"Arise, be strong! Bear thou an earnest part Against all forms of wrong. 4 "Wouldst live in earth as lives The glorious One above? He for thy model gives Himself, and he is Love. 5 "Love in each brother man The God who loveth him; Revere the stamp of heaven, However marred and dim. 6 "Bid fear give place to love; Bid doubt and passion cease; Be every word of hate Forever hushed in peace." 7 Sound, sound through all the earth! Sound through the echoing sky! Proclaim the world's new birth; Proclaim the Lord is nigh! 189. 7s. M. *Montgomery. The Liberty of the Sons of God. 1 God made all his creatures free; Life itself is liberty; God ordained no other bands Than united hearts and hands. 2 Sin the primal charter broke,-- Sin, itself earth's heaviest yoke; Tyranny with sin began, Man o'er brute, and man o'er man. 3 But a better day shall be, Life again be liberty, And the wide world's only bands Love-knit hearts and love-linked hands. 4 So shall every slavery cease, All God's children dwell in peace, And the new-born earth record Love, and Love alone, is Lord. 190. P. M. H. Ware. Freedom. 1 Oppression shall not always reign; There comes a brighter day, When freedom, burst from every chain, Shall have triumphant way. Then right shall over might prevail, And truth, like hero armed in mail, The hosts of tyrant wrong assail, And hold eternal sway.