That endless source of evidence and truth,
Prove every doctrine by that golden rule,
And “try the spirits if they be of God.”
Mrs. Sigourney.
The Gospel’s glorious hope,
Its rule of purity, its eye of prayer,
Its fort of firmness on temptation’s steep,
Its bark that fails not, ’mid the storm of death,
He spread before them, and with gentlest tone,
Such as a brother to his sister breathes,