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(737) Consistency.--Titus 2: 10-13.

So let our lips and lives express

The holy gospel we profess;

So let our works and virtues shine

To prove the doctrine all divine.

2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad

The honors of our Savior God;

When his salvation reigns within,

And grace subdues the power of sin.

3 Religion bears our spirits up,

While we expect that blessed hope,--

The bright appearance of the Lord;

And faith stands leaning on his word.

Isaac Watts, 1709.

The Responsibilities of the Age.

We are living, we are dwelling,

In a grand and awful time,

In an age on ages telling;

To be living is sublime.

2 Hark the onset! will ye fold your

Faith-clad arms in lazy lock?

Up! O up! thou drowsy soldier;

Worlds are charging to the shock.

3 Worlds are charging, heav'n beholding;

Thou hast but an hour to fight;

Now, the blazoned cross unfolding,

On! right onward for the right.

4 On! let all the soul within you

For the truth's sake go abroad;

Strike! let ev'ry nerve and sinew

Tell on ages--tell for God.

Bp. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, 1840.