Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew

Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,

Cannon in front of them

Volley'd and thunder'd;

Storm'd at with shot and shell,

Boldly they rode and well;

Into the jaws of Death,

Into the mouth of Hell,
Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their sabres bare,

Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,

Charging an army, while

All the world wonder'd.

Plunged in the battery-smoke,

Right thro' the line they broke:

Cossack and Russian

Reel'd from the sabre-stroke,

Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not-
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon behind them

Volley'd and thunder'd;

Storm'd at with shot and shell,

While horse and hero fell,

They that had fought so well

Came thro' the jaws of Death

Back from the mouth of Hell,

All that was left of them,

Left of six hundred.

-ALFRED TENNYSON, "Charge of the Light Brigade"

Be not afraid, only believe.

Pray without ceasing.

What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Amend your ways and your doings, and hearken to the voice of the Lord your God.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Return to thy God: keep goodness and justice, and wait on thy God continually.

Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful.

Give ear, O my people, to my instruction: incline thy ear to the words of my mouth.

Ascribe ye strength unto God.

Serve the Lord with gladness.

Make straight the way of the Lord.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit, and will not immediately draw him out, on the sabbath day?

Make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
He that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

"COUNTLESS THOUSANDS MOURN"

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.-JESUS

O, woe is me!

To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!-HAMLET

Pity the shipwrecked; for the voyage is uncertain.-THE SIBYL

Suspicious Discord rends the peaceful State in twain,
And busy Murder follows in her train.

Gone are the loyal faith, the rights revered of old—
Reigns but a blind and cruel lust of Gold!

O come, Thou holy Child! Pity the fallen world,
Lest it should perish, into darkness hurled.

Out of the laboring Night grant it a newer birth,
And a New Age to bloom o'er all the earth.

Circle with splendors old the brow of Faith divine;
Let her full glory on the nations shine.

Be Error's mist dissolved, and ancient feuds repressed,
Till Earth at last find quietude and rest.

O gentle Peace, return, nor evermore depart;

And link us hand in hand and heart to heart!-LEO XIII

-ROBERT BURNS, "Man Was Made to Mourn"

Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother.

Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flocks, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy wine-press : wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, that shalt thou give unto him.

Sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor.

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

For it is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden to make the poor man rich.

Know ye that the Lord he is God.

O taste and see that the Lord is good.

Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him.

Trust in the Lord, and do good.

Let the weak say, I am strong.

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth.

Say not, As he hath done to me so will I do to him.

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting.

Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God doth man live. Open thy mouth wide, and eat that I give thee.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.

If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

"GIVE TO THE WRETCHED"

The perpetual struggle for room and food!-MALTHUS
He who gives alms knows how to lend to God.-THE SIBYL

He that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.-SOLOMON
What I give, I have; what I keep, I lose.-Spanish Proverb

Ah, when shall all men's good

Be each man's rule, and universal peace
Lie like a shaft of light across the land,
And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
Thro' all the circle of the golden year?—TENNYSON

You hear that boy laughing?-you think he's all fun;
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done;

The children laugh loud as they troop to his call,

And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.-HOLMES

OF

H, stay not thine hand, when the winter's wind rude
Blows cold through the dwellings of want and despair,

To ask if misfortune has come to the good,

Or if folly has wrought the sad wreck that is there.

When the Saviour of men raised His finger to heal,
Did He ask if the sufferer were Gentile or Jew?
When thousands were fed with a bountiful meal,
Was it given alone to the faithful and true?

If the heart-stricken wanderer asks thee for bread,
In suffering he bows to necessity's laws;
When the wife moans in sickness, the children unfed,
The cup must be bitter: oh, ask not the cause!

Then scan not too closely the frailties of those

Whose bosoms may bleed on a cold winter's day,

And give to the wretched who tells thee his woes,
And from him that would borrow, oh turn not away!
-REYNELL COATES, "Christian Charity"

"GREATER FAR IS HEAVENLY SYMPATHY"

Whoso stoppeth his ears against the cry of the poor, he also will cry himself, but shall not be answered.-SOLOMON

Keep God in your debt.-Indian proverb