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“When ye hear I am come, then can ye arise,
The joy of your heart springing up in your eyes?
Can ye come out to meet Me, whate’er the cost be,
Though ye come on the waves of a storm-crested sea?

“When I call, can ye turn and in gladness ‘come out’
From the home of your childhood, the friends of your heart?
With naught but My promise on which to rely,
Afar from their love—can ye lie down and die?”

“Yea, we’ll take up the Cross and in faith follow Thee,
And bear Thy reproach, Thy disciples to be.
Blest Savior, for courage to Thee we will fly;
Of grace Thou hast promised abundant supply.”

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— June 15, 1914 —