"GOD MOVES IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY."

NZ Truth, Issue 57, 21 July 1906, Page 8

"GOD MOVES IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY."

"God moves m a mysterious-way ,-• His wonders to perform ; , He plants His footsteps m the sea And rides upon the storm." ■ So sang a bard long years ago— A bard and not unskilled— But that same God he used to know Has long 'ago been killed. For Science, mistress of the spheres, Proclaims a Greater OneNo God of storms, and blood, and tears, Who girds bright armour oh. No ; we have left the bitter god, The dreadful Hebrew Jah— And seek a far more glorious Being Who never 1 goes to war., i Who never gluts a fierce revenge On helpless human lives ; Who never says, "My son" to Kings With seven hundred wives., Who is not jealous, cruel, vile, As He whom /Moses served : (Or said he served) m shocking style Till Israel grew unnerved. "Our. God— oh,, could we know; His , Name ! To utter it were bliss— But human tongue can never claim To speak Him as He is !, ' / •■ ' He is the God whom Tennyson Found m the flowers and stars The God whom Shelley sought alone . Beyond these earthly bars. ,. He is the God of all true men— The God of all clean mindsHe is the God we may. know when Mankind His message finds. He moves m no mysterious way, 'Tis we who cannot trace His footways— though the Light of Day Shines ever round His Place. His Place ! Yea; seek it not "above," It is as much "below," And all abound— where Life and Love Like fadeless flowers grow. He comes upon the rare light-ray, And hovers over Earth ' From suns a million years away, And m the stone has birth. He is m all, of all, with allin sun, and stone, and sod, And field, and tree, and you, and me We know Him not, nor can we seeBut we. niay ; call Him "Cfod." ... AMEN.!... ■ i