The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
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If thou rememberest each misdeed,
If each should have its rightful meed, Lord, who shall stand before thee? "Lord, through thy love alone we gain The pardon of our sin: The strictest life is but in vain, Our works can nothing win, That man should boast himself of aught, But own in fear thy grace hath wrought What in him seemeth righteous. "Wherefore my hope is in the Lord, My works I count but dust; I build not there, but on his word, And in his goodness trust. Up to his care myself I yield; He is my tower, my rook, my shield, And for his help I tarry." To the praying of the broken voice of John Leclerc she listened. In his prayer she joined. To the eloquence of Mazurier, whose utterances she laid up in her heart,--to the fervor of Le Roy, which left her eyes not dry, her soul not calm, but strong in its commotion, grasping fast the eternal truths which he, too, would proclaim, she listened. She was not only now among them, she was of them,--of them forevermore. Though she should never again look on those faces, nor listen to those voices, of them, of all they represented, was she forevermore. Their God was hers,--their faith was hers; their danger would she share,--their |
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