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Hindoo Converts On the Domestic Trials of Hindoo Converts.
Report of Unitarian Mission in India.
“I came to cast a fire into the earth,”The Savior said, that error shall consume,
The false beliefs, which in the mind have birth,
And with the Truth its inmost depths illume.
And what will I, if now it kindled be,
And natural kindred for a time divide?
The end of all their trials I foresee,
And heavenly mansions for their rest provide.
“Endure unto the end!” That cheering word
Doth still encourage all his chosen saints;
They look to Him, their Master, and their Lord,
Whene'er in trials sore the spirit faints;
Patient endure the danger, and the strife,
And tried, receive at length the Crown of Life!
Poem No. 217; c. 27 March 1858
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