. The people's hour, and other themes . where the Spoiler has trod. We shall follow in light to the fountainsAnd beautiful gardens of God! Thourt publishing peace to the nation. And helping the poor to be free;Thourt bringing a present salvation From every injustice men face is a terror to tyrants. It withers their strength and they fall;But to those who are under oppression. It seemeth the fairest of all. Its glory, etc. Thou teachest the folly of fighting. The waste of competitive strife; Thou showest the need of uniting ZZ The Peoples Hour. In equal industrial shamest the
. The people's hour, and other themes . where the Spoiler has trod. We shall follow in light to the fountainsAnd beautiful gardens of God! Thourt publishing peace to the nation. And helping the poor to be free;Thourt bringing a present salvation From every injustice men face is a terror to tyrants. It withers their strength and they fall;But to those who are under oppression. It seemeth the fairest of all. Its glory, etc. Thou teachest the folly of fighting. The waste of competitive strife; Thou showest the need of uniting ZZ The Peoples Hour. In equal industrial shamest the pride of the classes, Who prey on the landless and weak;Thy light is a light for the masses, The hope of the poor and the meek. Its glory, etc. Oh, never a lie but thou knowest Its evil, its folly, its pain;And never a good but thou showest How all its advantage shall earth shall be filled with the knowledge Of that which is helpful and Truth shall disarm the Deceiver, And force him to grovel in dust. For glory, 34 The Peoples Hour. THE HEART OF THE MASSES. Deep in the heart of the masses the spirit of manhood ismoving,Quickened by social constraint and stirred into strenu-ous action;Grouped by the power of oppression and driven perforceinto loving,The workers are forming in ranks, and fellowshipswallows up faction. Tyranny challenges ; and fellowship grows intofineness;So shall the hidings of power be brought to a , fineness and might the trinity make of divine-ness,Masterful, working perfection, joined to the forcesunfailing. Not from above can be looked for the spirit of comrade-ship needed;Society sinks, or is saved by the masses despised better the rage of a people whose grievances shownare unheeded—•Better industrial war—than tyranny always accepted. 35 The Peoples Hour. Scathingly hot is the scorning a class giveth now to itstraitors,When never were manhood and meanness in contest sodespera
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