61. Will Ye Play?

We are living, we are dwelling, in a grand and awful time, in an age on ages telling, to be living is sublime.  Hark! the waking up of Christians, Over all the world away; Hark! what soundeth? Is creation groaning for her latter day?

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Will ye play, then? will ye dally far behind the battle line?  Up! it is Jehovah’s rally; God’s own arm hath need of thine.  Worlds are charging, heav'n beholding; thou hast but an hour to fight; Now, the blazoned cross unfolding, on, right onward for the right!

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Sworn to yield, to waver, never; consecrated, born again; Sworn to be Christ’s soldiers ever, O for Christ at least be men!  O let all the soul within you for the truth’s sake go abroad!  Strike! let ev'ry nerve and sinew tell on ages, tell for God.