A new edition may you be
Of Father's love and zeal,
But yet enlarged so wondrously
That earth thy tread may feel.
The poem Throwing Ink at the Devil, refers to the printing and publishing of the Gospel Trumpet. The place "where two lightning tracks lie crossing" is Grand Junction, Mich., where the publishing office was then located.
At Wartburg Castle sat a son of thunder
Dealing heaven's dynamite,
When, lo! before him 'peared an apparition,
Fury-threatening demon sight.
The piercing words of truth, so long besmothered