Ah, not in vain!—or those who, in old time,
For work of happier issue, to the side
Of Tell came trooping from a thousand huts,
When he had risen alone![JI] No braver Youth
Descended from Judean[710] heights, to march
With righteous Joshua;[JJ] nor[711] appeared in arms
When grove was felled, and altar was cast down,
And Gideon blew the trumpet, soul-inflamed,
And strong in hatred of idolatry."
The Pastor, even as if by these last words