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“LET US PASS OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE.”
“The same day, when the even was come, He saith unto them, ‘Let us
pass over unto the other side.’”
—Mark iv. 35, and Luke viii. 1–22.
The Master, with the Twelve, through Galilee
The sower's patient toil had duly plied;
Gently He spake, and pointed o'er the sea,
“Let us pass over to the other side.”
The sower's patient toil had duly plied;
Gently He spake, and pointed o'er the sea,
“Let us pass over to the other side.”
A chain of towns girdled the western shore,
Where Commerce poured her wealth with ceaseless tide,
And footsteps came and went for evermore,
But lonely stillness crowned “the other side.”
Where Commerce poured her wealth with ceaseless tide,
And footsteps came and went for evermore,
But lonely stillness crowned “the other side.”
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Thus oft with wind or oar the Lord withdrew
From the loud haunts of Labour, Gain, and Pride,
And on those distant mountains, out of view,
Communed with God upon “the other side.”
From the loud haunts of Labour, Gain, and Pride,
And on those distant mountains, out of view,
Communed with God upon “the other side.”
So, mid the busy scenes of daily life,
Not always on Care's shore must we abide:
From toil and tumult, weariness and strife,
“Let us pass over to the other side.”
Not always on Care's shore must we abide:
From toil and tumult, weariness and strife,
“Let us pass over to the other side.”
Our home, like Christ's, may be the noisy street,
But we, like Him, will cross the waters wide,
And climb the heights of meditation sweet,
Where we shall meet Him on “the other side.”
But we, like Him, will cross the waters wide,
And climb the heights of meditation sweet,
Where we shall meet Him on “the other side.”
Not to forsake our proper work and place,
Nor in a selfish solitude to hide,
But to secure fresh freights of heavenly grace,
“Let us pass over to the other side.”
Nor in a selfish solitude to hide,
But to secure fresh freights of heavenly grace,
“Let us pass over to the other side.”
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