The Church persecuted is the Church pure.
The Church pure is the Church powerful.
The Church patronised is the Church in peril.
The Church fraternised is the Church paralysed. — J. Douglas
By the late James H. Wilkinson (Co. Tyrone)
Death everlasting by the fall
Must be the doom of sinners all,
But God's unbounded love we see
To ruined man at Calvary.
God's holiness we also see
While Jesus suffers on the tree,
Bearing the sin of Adam's race
In holy wrath God hid His face.
God's righteousness He doth declare
By dying, Christ hath triumphed there,
And God the Just now justifies
The sinner who on Christ relies.
Forever be the glory then
To Him Who died for sinful men,
A little while and in the air
He'll call His saints to meet Him there.