Summary…contd….

 

   Perhaps the most apt, poignant and prophetic appeals reach us through the pens of the poets and hymn  writers of the past.;-

    William Cowper ( 1731- 1800)  wrote ;-

      “Oh Israel ! of all nations most undone, Thy diadem displaced, thy sceptre gone; Cry aloud, thou that sittest in the dust, Cry to the proud, the cruel, the unjust ! Knock at the gates of the nations, rouse their fears, Say wrath is coming, and the storm appears, But raise the shrillest cry in British ears.”

     And Charles Wesley wrote in the Wesleyan hymn book of 1799  :   “Almighty God of love, Set up the attracting sign, And summon whom Thou dost approve For messengers divine From favoured Abraham’s seed The new apostles choose, In isles and continents to spread the dead –reviving news.