  1 Samuel 4: 10, 11; 7: 3. They fought with lances in that ancient day, With sword and spear and arrow deftly sped. At eventide the hosts of Israel lay Vanquished and spoiled, the dying with the dead; And the Ark of God was taken. They fought with ballots in our nearer day; From morn to eve the light-winged missiles flew; Again Philistia's triumph brought dismay, And Wrong, victorious, struggling Virtue slew, And the Ark of God was taken. O ye to whom the sacred trust was given To guard the altar and the ark of God, Have ye been recreant to the charge of heaven, That thus we fall before the avenging rod, And the Ark of God is taken? Rouse from your shameful slumbers. Put away Your strange gods from among you. Turn again; That in the drawing of some nobler day The hosts of sin may be rebuked of men, And the Ark of God re-taken. |
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