cell;
In love's name to say to the stricken one there,
That God still hath ear, and an answer to prayer.

3 And strong grows the heart of the outcast--and soon
In that dim prison come the pure light-gleams of noon;
The resolve and the faith of the sinner forgiven,
Send him back to the world with a heart seeking heaven.

4 God's angels! Love speed them o'er earth's wide domain!
New aids to impart, and new triumphs to gain;
Till the wrathful and wrong from our world shall retire,
And humanity's groans in her praises expire.

5 For the promise of truth--though the doubting deny--
Is, that love shall prevail in the earth as on high;
Its life-waters healing, wherever they flow,
With the angels above, or the angels below.

580. L. M. Aikin.

In Time of War.

1 While sounds of war are heard around,
And death and ruin strew the ground,
To Thee we look, on Thee we call,
The Parent and the Lord of all.

2 Thou, who hast stamped on human kind
The image of a heaven-born mind,
And in a Father's wide embrace
Hast cherished all the kindred race;

3 Great God! whose powerful hand can bind
The raging waves, the furious wind,
O bid the human tempest cease,
And hush the maddening world to peace.

4 With reverence may each hostile land
Hear and obey that high command,
Thy Son's blest errand from above--
"My children, live in mutual love!"

581. 7s. M. Mrs. Follen.

Prayer for the Slave.

1 Lord! deliver; Thou canst save;
Save from evil, Mighty God!
Hear--oh! hear the kneeling slave;
Break--oh! break th' oppressor's rod.

2 May the captive's pleading fill
All the earth, and all the sky;
Every other voice be still,
While he pleads with God on high.

3 He, whose ear is everywhere,
Who doth silent sorrow see,
Will regard the captive's prayer,
Will from bondage set him free.

4 From the tyranny within,
Save Thy children, Lord! we pray;
Chains of iron, chains of sin,
Cast, forever cast away.

5 Love to man, and love to God,
Are the weapons of our war;
These can break th' oppressor's rod--
Burst the bonds that we abhor.

582. 12s. M.