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THE FINGER OF GOD.
THE FINGER OF GOD.
"God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved."—John iii. 17.
"Never man spake like this Man."—John vii. 46.
He stooped, and wrote upon the ground:
No sound the silence breaks;
Quick-heaving breasts and clouded brows
Proclaim that conscience wakes:
Men feel that God Himself is there,
Beneath whose sight the soul lies bare.
No sound the silence breaks;
Quick-heaving breasts and clouded brows
Proclaim that conscience wakes:
Men feel that God Himself is there,
Beneath whose sight the soul lies bare.
We know not what that finger traced
To meet each downcast eye,
What long-forgotten sins arose
In slumbering memory;
In darkness veiled—to men unknown,
But seen by God, by God alone.
To meet each downcast eye,
What long-forgotten sins arose
In slumbering memory;
In darkness veiled—to men unknown,
But seen by God, by God alone.
He reads their thoughts, deceitful all;
Clear to His sight they shine;
Lust, avarice, murder, serpent's guile,
And last—their dark design.
He bids the sinless cast the stone;
And lo, they go forth, one by one!
Clear to His sight they shine;
Lust, avarice, murder, serpent's guile,
And last—their dark design.
He bids the sinless cast the stone;
And lo, they go forth, one by one!
