d when the ranks are full and strong,
And the whole army moves along,
A vast result of care and skill,
Obedient to the master will,
And our young hero draws the sword,
And gives the last commanding word
That hurls your strength upon the foe--
_Oh, let them need no second blow!_
Strike, as your fathers struck of old,
Through summer's heat and winter's cold;
Through pain, disaster, and defeat;
Through marches tracked with bloody feet;
Through every ill that could befall
The holy cause that bound them all!
Strike as they struck for liberty!
Strike as they struck to make you free!
Strike for the crown of victory!'

While we honor our brave soldiers and their glorious deeds, let us also
honor their bards,

'Nor suffer them to steal,
Unthanked, away, to weep beside the harp,
Dejected, prayerful, while the fields are won.'

BROKEN LIGHTS: An Inquiry into the Present Condition and Future
Prospects of Religious Faith. By FRANCES POWER COBBE. Boston: J. E.
Tilton & Co. 1864.

A book of decided ability, however much we may regret the conclusions
arrived at by its author. Contents of Part I. are: The Present Condition
of Religious Faith. Chapter I. The Great Problem. II. The Solutions of
the Problem, Historical and Rational, Palaeologian and Neologian. Under
the head of Palaeologian we have The High Church Solution, the Low Church
Solution; under Neologian we have the First Broad Church Solution, the
Second Broad Church Solution. We have then the Solutions of the Parties
Outside the Church, Bishop Colenso on the Pentateuch, and Renan's 'Vie
de Jesus.' Part II. gives us 'The Future Prospects of Religious Faith.'
Under the head of Rational, we have the Rationalist Solution of the
Problems, The Faith of the Future, Theoretic Theism, and Practical
Theism.

Our author is of the school of Theodore Parker, a Theist. 'Three great
principles--the absolute goodness of God; the final salvation of every
created soul; and the divine authority of conscience--are the obvious
fundamental canons of the Faith of the Future.' We continue our
quotations: 'God will not leave us when all our puny theologies have
failed us, and all our little systems shall have had their day and
ceased to be. We shall yet praise Him who is the light of life, even
though the darkness may seem to gather round us now. Christianity may
fail us, and we may watch it with straining eyes going slowly d