* * ETERNITY Was there. * * * * * * * The trumpets sounded, The golden harps attuned triumphant lays, And heaven's vast courts were still;-with rapid strides To him, the chief, he trembling, yielded up His dread account: The Cherub raised the signet, JEHOVAH'S MANUEL, and on the parchment was imprest ANOTHER YEAR-Again the trumpets sounded; The tuneful harps again lent melody, And swelled on high, the blessed, the sacred song. AFRICA. "ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH OUT HER HANDS UNTO THEE." WHILE on the distant Hindoo shore, MESSIAH's cross is reared; While Pagan votaries bow no more, With idol blood besmeared: While Palestine again doth hear, While Islam crescents disappear, Say, shall not AFRIC's fated land, Ye heralds of a Saviour's love, O haste, and let compassion move, For millions doomed to die. Blessed Jesus, who for these, hath bled, Wilt thou the captives free; And Ethiopia, too, shall spread Her ransomed hands to thee. THE TOMB OF JESUS. THE MUSSULMEN IN PALESTINE HAVE TAKEN POSSESSION OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE IN JERUSALEM; AND THE ABBE FORBIN JANSON HAS PROCEEDED TO CONSTANTINOPLE, TO RECLAIM FROM THE GRAND SEIGNOR THE KEEPING OF THE TOMB OF JESUS. IT PRODUCES AN ANNUAL INCOME OF $260,000. ON Shinah's plain, where David's gem appeared, The holy pilgrim from afar descries The Tomb of JESUS, Lord Supreme of earth and skies. 'Twas there the Ancient of Eternal Day, When chaos reigned and shoreless was the wave. And bolts in heaven for those who the dark traffic share. O soon may Shiloh bless the fated land, The unhallowed crescent there be seen no more; The blessed Messiah, lives and reigns for evermore. JULY, 1818. |