Mountain boy of Wildhaus : a life of Ulric Zwingli . epared the papal cantons would renew theattack; and his fears were to be sadly realized. During the time that Zwingli was waiting forthe negotiations to cease, which were to avertwar for the time, he composed the followinghymn, setting it to music ; and in this form it DANGER AND DEFENCE. 163 was often sung by the Swiss. We furnish thefree paraphrase of another hand, in whichform it could very well be sung in English:— Do Thou direct Thy chariot Lord, And guide us at Thy will;Without Thy aid our strength is vain And useless all our
Mountain boy of Wildhaus : a life of Ulric Zwingli . epared the papal cantons would renew theattack; and his fears were to be sadly realized. During the time that Zwingli was waiting forthe negotiations to cease, which were to avertwar for the time, he composed the followinghymn, setting it to music ; and in this form it DANGER AND DEFENCE. 163 was often sung by the Swiss. We furnish thefree paraphrase of another hand, in whichform it could very well be sung in English:— Do Thou direct Thy chariot Lord, And guide us at Thy will;Without Thy aid our strength is vain And useless all our down upon Thy saints belowWhen prostrate laid beneath the foe. Beloved Pastor, who hast saved Our souls from death and sin:Uplift Thy voice, awake Thy sheep ; That slumbering lie withinThy fold ; and curb, with Thy right hand,The rage of Satans furious band. Send down Thy peace and banish strife, Let bitterness depart;Revive the spirit of Thy grace In each true Christians heart;Then shall Thy church forever singThe praises of her heavenly CHAPTER XV. MEETING WITH LUTHEB. While peace temporarily spread her mantleover Switzerland, and the Reformed religionwas unmolested at Zurich, its central seat,Zwingli was invited to meet with the great Re-former of Saxony, Martin Luther, for a compa-rison of their views respecting the Lords Sup-per. Zwingli, anxious that every differencebetween the Reformers might be removed, ac-cepted willingly the invitation of Philip, land-grave of Hesse, to meet at his castle at Marburgfor a friendly conference. The council of Zurichdiscouraged Zwingli from attempting the jour-ney, for fear that he would be slain; but hepersevered in his resolution, and set out unat-tended for Basel, where he met his friend CEco-lampadius, with whom he went on to Marburg. Luther seems to have consented rather reluc-tantly to the invitation, having doubts as to theissue of the conference. Myconius says that164 MEETING WITH LUTHER. 165 Zwingli and QEcolampadius m
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