And He was Abra’m’s God.
How well he has expressed the depths of contrition in his version of the 51st Psalm, what plaintive compassion—
O Thou that hear’st when sinners cry!
And equally well he has depicted the happiness and serenity of “a heart sprinkled from an evil conscience:”
O happy soul that lives on high!
Or—
Lord, how secure and blest are they
Who feel the joys of pardoned sin.
Then how vigorously his notes rouse and stir to the activities of the Christian life:
Are we the soldiers of the cross,