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ST. MARK’S DAY
And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other. Acts xv. 30. Compare 2 Tim. iv. 11. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
Oh! who shall dare in this frail scene On holiest happiest thoughts to lean, On Friendship, Kindred, or on Love? Since not Apostles’ hands can clasp Each other in so firm a grasp But they shall change and variance prove. |
Yet deem not, on such parting sad Shall dawn no welcome dear and glad: Divided in their earthly race, Together at the glorious goal, Each leading many a rescu’d soul, The faithful champions shall embrace. |
For e’en as those mysterious Four, Who the bright whirling wheels upbore By Chebar in the fiery blast.107107They turned not when they went; they went every one straight onward. Ezekiel 1. 9. So, on their tasks of love and praise This saints of God their several ways Right onward speed, yet join at last. |
And sometimes e’en beneath the moon The Saviour gives a gracious boon, When reconciled Christians meet, And face to face, and heart to heart, High thoughts of holy love impart In silence meek, or converse sweet. |
Companion of the Saints! ’twas thine To taste that drop of peace divine, When the great soldier of thy Lord Call’d thee to take his last farewell, Teaching the Church with joy to tell The story of your love restor’d. |
O then the glory and the bliss, When all that pain’d or seem’d amiss Shall melt with earth and sin away! When saints beneath their Saviour’s eye, Fill’d with each other’s company, Shall spend in love th’ eternal day! |
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