Alone can life remake.

How shall we turn to good this weight of ill?
How of our sorrows build anew to Thee?
"Of your own selves ye cannot stand or build,--
Only through _Me_,--through _Me_!"

O, turn once more to Thee the hearts of men,
Work through the leaven of our grief and pain,
Let not these agonies be all in vain,
Come, dwell with us again!

The world has nailed itself unto its cross;
O, tender to Thy hands its heart will prove,
For Thou alone canst heal its dreadful loss,--
Come Thou and reign in love!

Peace and the sword, Lord, Thou didst come to bring;
Too long the sword has drunk to Thy decrease.
Come now, by this high way of suffering,
And reign, O Prince of Peace!

TUNE--_Artavia_.
"_And didst Thou love the race that loved not Thee?_"

THE WINNOWING

Lord, Thou hast stricken us, smitten us sore,
Winnowed us fine on the dread threshing-floor.
"Had I not reason?--far you had strayed,
Vain was My calling, you would not be stayed."

Low in the dust, Lord, our hearts now are bowed,
Roughly Thy share through our boasting has ploughed.
"So as My ploughing prepares for the seed,
So shall the harvest our best hopes exceed."

Lord, we have lost of our dearest and best,
Flung to the void and cast out to the waste.
"Nay then, not one of them fell from My hand,
Here at My side in their glory they stand."

How shall we start, Lord, to build life again,
Fairer and sweeter, and freed from its pain?
"Build ye in Me and your building shall be
Builded for Time and Eternity."

TUNE--_Theodora_.
"_Rest of the weary, joy of the sad._"

TO THIS END

And hast Thou help for such as me,
Sin-weary, stained, forlorn?
"_Yea then,--if not for such as thee
To what end was I born?_"

But I have strayed so far away,
So oft forgotten Thee.
"_No smallest thing that thou hast done
But was all known to Me._"

And I have followed other gods,
And brought Thy name to scorn.
"_It was to win thee back from them
I wore the crown of thorn._"

And, spite of all, Thou canst forgive,
And still attend my cry?
"_Dear heart, for this end I did live,
To this end did I die._"

And if I fall away again,