Accountable to him for all we do,

Feel, think, or say; and at the last great day,

A most exact account must render too.

With this conclusion be thou satisfied—

For all who will accept him, Christ hath died.

Sept. 19, 1862.


God is a Sovereign, man free agent too;

How these to reconcile I do not know:

But this I know, if lost, the blame is mine,