RELIGIOUS MATTERS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 97, 16 December 1904, Page 9

RELIGIOUS MATTERS.

AM UNSHAKEN ROCK.

'Tovrltrw is long and your fersr Is strong;. _.'____■•*. And strong are your arms that wlald, Thrust It down viith a afcock be-4<_e this huge rock, And lift the curse from the flew. A cheer smiteff tiye sky a* to tti«lr vrorlt '\ hie, The workmen brawny ami boro "HuxTah; now fchali come out with care and -with about. The rock that curses tbe wot M.* 1 They work with a will aad they work, with j skiM; They spare neither tact nor toil— i "Why fla*hes not out with shout tipon shout I That ancient plague of tha •oil!' At cry of th» grief I will teli th«e, O ehlef, Whet rock thy workmen assail; "With th« strength of their sietfffct and- i strength of their might. And yet do nothing but f aiL •Tii the Book of tha Lordl the Rock c Hia Word. ' Sunk deep In the hf art of the TBX-, On whioh th« Lorci stand* aU worlds in His hands, To keep the Rock In its piaoe. When the Lord of ell i-and* on hi* bedJ-rocl vtanda. His weight the we!jhtof the sky. Full sureky In va-ti. « .il mmm. struggle am •train. That Book from Its bed to pry. They may wrwrtle _nd pry, nay wre*tl< and die, . To lift that Rock from Its bed; But vain is their thought and thmwr levers are wuight— But shadows in hands- of tha OmmAl — Ew F. Burr, in Ram's- Horn.