Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Son of God Goes Forth to War The Son of God goes forth to war, A kingly crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar: Who follows in His train? Who best can drink his cup of woe, Triumphant over pain, Who patient bears his cross below, He follows In His train. The martyr first, whose eagle eye Could pierce beyond the grave, Who saw his Master In the sky, And called on Him to save: Like Him, with pardon on his tongue In midst of mortal pain, He prayed for them that did the wrong: Who follows in his train? A glorious band, the chosen few On whom the Spirit came, Twelve valiant saints, their hope they knew, And mocked the cross and flame: They met the tyrant’s brandished steel, The lion’s gory mane; They bow’d their necks the death to feel: Who follows in their train? A noble army, men and boys, The matron and the maid, Around the Saviour’s throne rejoice, In robes of light arrayed: They climbed the steep ascent of heav'n Thro’ peril, toll, and pain: O God, to us may grace be glv'n To follow in their train. Heber Being a Soldier Every Day in. DO you suppose that such a thing is possible? Some boy says that one cannot be a soldier without a uniform, but I suspect he is mistaken. A uniform does not make a soldier. Anybody might put on a soldier’s suit, but the suit would not convert him into a soldier. The uniform catches the eye but it does not get hold of the memory. The world does not remember the uniform of soldiers but the things which soldiers do. Who thinks of the uniform which Leonidas wore at Thermopylae, or the suit of clothes which Sir Philip Sydney had on when he lay dying on the battlefield of Lutzen. It was because Sydney refused to take a drink of water which he said another wounded…