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overcome the citadel at last??Is it not thought illiberal to refuse?Alliances with those who now profess?Respect and friendship? Must the Quaker then?Bow in the house of Rimmon, saying, Lord?Pardon in this thy servant? Do not some?Fail to resist encroachments, when they come?Clothed in enticing words, and wear the guise?Of charity and kindness, and are veiled,?Or sweetened to the taste, by courtesy??But is a snare less certain, when concealed?By some enticing bait? or is a ball?Less sure and fatal, when it flies unheard,?Or, when the hand that sends it is unseen,?Or offers friendship? Did not Joab say,?"Art thou in health my brother?" and appeared?To kiss Amasa, while he thrust his sword?Into his life-blood? And when Jonas fled?From the Lord's service, and the stormy waves?Threatened the ship that bore him, was the cause?Not found within it? Was there not a calm?When he, whose disobedience to the Lord?Had raised the tempest, was no longer there??Truth has a standard openly displayed,?Untorn--unsullied. Man indeed may change,?And may forsake it; but the Standard still?Remains immutable. May all who love?This Holy Banner, rally to it now!?May all whose dwellings are upon the sand,?Seek for a building on that living Rock,?Which stands forever;--for a storm has come--?A storm that tries foundations! Even now,?The flooding rains are falling, and the winds?Rapidly rising to a tempest, beat?Upon all dwellings. They alone can stand?Which have the Rock beneath them, and above?The Omnipresent and Omnipotent?Creator and Defender of His Church!
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