Christian Cynosure (1904) (14780315054)

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Title: Christian Cynosure

Year: 1904 (1900s)

Authors: Phillips, William Irving

Subjects: Secret societies - Religious aspects - Christianity.

Publisher: Chicago, IL: National Christian Association

Contributing Library: Buswell Memorial Library, Wheaton College (IL)

Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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it appear, however. That thou hast kept the faith.Thy bonds He sliall dissever. When thou expectest least.And from the heavy burden He shall thy heart release.That now, to no misfortune. Disturbs thy rest and peace. BRING to thy virtue patience— IT is faiths choicest fruit—And wait for thy redemption From all distress and need.Then God shall crown with glory The vessel of His Grace.And thou shalt sing the story Of Love before His face. TO PASS away, in Mercy, Good Lord, our ills command!Do strengthen in Thy service. Great Savior, foot and hand!Sustain against defection Thy children by Thy Breath.And grant by Thy Election Us faith and hope in death. O God, Who art Peace everlasting,Whose chosen rew^ard is the gift of Peace,and Who hast taught us that the peace-makers are Thy children, pour Thy sweetPeace into our soiuls, that everything dis-cordant may utterly vanish, and all thatmakes for Peace be sweet to us forever.Amen.—Gelasian. ^ (Jctol>ei-. r.H)4. CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE. HM

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the best blood of the Celestial Empire,and, despite his conventional twentieth-century attire, he is bound on holy pil-grimage. No fiery steed bears him on hisway, but the vehicle known in his nativetongue as the fire-wheeled carriage. As the train leaves Chicago in the heatand dust of an August noon, he lays hishead wearily against the crimson cush-ions and surveys his past. Seldom havetwenty-three years united experiences sounique and so momentous. Deprived ofhis mother in early childhood, he foundthrough misfortune the greatest bless-ing of his life. The home of wealththat sheltered his next of kin had no loveand care for the motherless boy. To es-cape what his childish soul resented asinjustice, he ran away to his father,whose business as collector for a mer-cantile establishment forbade him a set-tled home. The father wished to send theboy back to his aunt. She sent word tothe former: Tf you will give him a severe beating,and if he will promise never to run awavagain, he may retu

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