April 22

Wherefore we, receiving a kingdom that cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably.

THEREFORE I trust, although to outward sense Both true and false seem shaken; I will hold

With newer light my reverence for the old, And calmly wait the births of Providence.

No gain is lost; the clear-eyed saints look down

Untroubled on the wreck of schemes and creeds;

Love yet remains, its rosary of good deeds

Counting in task-field and o'er peopled town;

Truth has charmed life! the Inward Word survives,

And, day by day, its revelation brings;

Faith, hope, and charity, whatsoever things

Which cannot be shaken, stand. Still holy lives

Reveal the Christ of whom the letter told,

And the new gospel verifies the old.

J. G.

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