The battle between good and evil is the longest battle that has raged in earth's history and even before that! We each get to choose a side. Good or evil. It's that simple. Except the evil side does all it can to stop the good. So the complication comes into the picture - those who choose the good will suffer for it. But if we endure, we will have a crown of life! May we get strength from the Lord to endure and track Christ's bleeding feet.

This is another request from my long list and thank you for making it. I am usually only able to do requests when I have extra time (due to having to get to know new ones) but this one I knew, so it jumped the line a bit!

Have a blessed week.

Once to Every Man and Nation

Verse 1
Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah,
Offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
'Twixt that darkness and that light.

Verse 2
Then to side with truth is noble
When we share her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit,
And 'tis prosperous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses,
While the coward stands aside,
Till the multitude make virtue
Of the faith they had denied.

Verse 3
By the light of burning martyrs,
Christ, Thy bleeding feet we track,
Toiling up new Calvaries ever
With the cross that turns not back
New occasions teach new duties,
Time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward,
Who would keep abreast of truth.

Verse 4
Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet 'tis truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong;
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch above His own.

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