Ring in the love of truth and right,

Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,

Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;

Ring out the thousand wars of old,

Ring in the thousand years of peace.”


[1] See p. 477 of The Relation of Confirmation to Baptism, by A. J. Mason, D.D. (Longmans.)

[2] At a men’s service held in St. Mary Bredin’s Church, Canterbury, on December 4th, 1904.