The Prisoner of Love By F. W. Orde Ward (F. Harald Wiliams) |
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LIFE BY DEATH |
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 | The Prisoner of Love |  |
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February 11 LIFE BY DEATH
“Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”—
Col. iii. 3.
Life is no life, that never dies
And doth not daily offer up
Its all to Love that crucifies,
And daily holds the Passion cup;
Life is no life, that never gives
The sacrifice by which it lives.
And doth not daily offer up
Its all to Love that crucifies,
And daily holds the Passion cup;
Life is no life, that never gives
The sacrifice by which it lives.
Life is no life, that keepeth back
One little portion of the whole,
And fain would tread the Saviour's track
Nor render body, mind, and soul;
Life is not life, whose every breath
Is not renewed by constant death.
One little portion of the whole,
And fain would tread the Saviour's track
Nor render body, mind, and soul;
Life is not life, whose every breath
Is not renewed by constant death.
Life is no life, that fain would grudge
The offering of a nail or thorn,
And lets not Christ be also Judge
Of life that hourly is reborn;
Life is not life, unless it lie
Alway in Him who bids us die.
The offering of a nail or thorn,
And lets not Christ be also Judge
Of life that hourly is reborn;
Life is not life, unless it lie
Alway in Him who bids us die.
Life is no life, that dares to choose
Its sufferings and would measure ill,
And hath not fully learnt to lose
Itself in higher Love and Will.
Life is not life, except with Christ,
Kept at the Cross in ceaseless tryst.
Its sufferings and would measure ill,
And hath not fully learnt to lose
Itself in higher Love and Will.
Life is not life, except with Christ,
Kept at the Cross in ceaseless tryst.
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