Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, some new decision,
Offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
Twixt that darkness and that light.
Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet 'tis truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong:
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch above His own.
James Russell Lowell, 1845
Cited by Paul B. Long in Citizen Soldiers of World War II.
Thank you for sharing this post. Very encouraging post!
ReplyDeleteBill
Excellent hymn.
ReplyDeleteRelated to this song, and the continuing events in the USA and the current "Fall of Saigon" in the ME: Believers who voted democrat in 2020 - get on your knees and repent! NOW.
Oh, but the bad orange man would have said some mean tweets. Right.
-Carolyn
Glenn,
ReplyDeleteThis is for all the "dem" voting believers (who truly need some deep repentance):
So... as we watch videos of people falling to their deaths from aircraft, desperately trying to escape A-stan, did you hear your dem candidate's CALLOUS ATTITUDE toward the loss of life? Not to mention he didn't even know or care when it actually happened.
But boy, he will go after governors who won't mandate suffocating school children.
Thank goodness there are no mean tweets, amiright?! Amiright?!
-Carolyn