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The Gospel the Reconciling Power
The word the Gospel brought was love and peace,A reconciling word to sinful men;
That they from enmity and strife should cease,
And as one family should dwell again.
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While over Europe hangs the cloud of war,
Which but of late made desolate our land,
But now, in mercy driven from us afar.
But still do enmity and hate remain.
One nation still we are, but not one race;
From human limbs have fallen Slavery's chain;
When from the mind shall vanish, too, its trace,
And in our hearts the Gospel's power be known,
And self, and sin, and hate be overthrown?
Poem No. 601; c. 4 November 1876
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