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<h2>ONCE TO EVERY MAN AND NATION</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_l_o_lowell_jr.jpg" alt="James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="107.333333333333" height="150.666666666667"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_l_o_lowell_jr.html" target="_blank">James Russell Lowell</a>, in the <em>Boston Courier</em>, December 11, 1845. Lowell wrote these words as a poem protesting America’s war with Mexico.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Ebenezer (Ton-y-Botel),” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_i_williams_tj.html" target="_blank">Thomas John Williams</a>, 1890 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_e_ebenezer.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,<br>
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In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;<br>
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Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight,<br>
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And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.</p>
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<p>Then to side with truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust,<br>
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Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and ’tis prosperous to be just;<br>
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Then it is the brave man chooses while the coward stands aside,<br>
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Till the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.</p>
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<p>By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, Thy bleeding feet we track,<br>
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Toiling up new Calv’ries ever with the cross that turns not back;<br>
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New occasions teach new duties, ancient values test our youth;<br>
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They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.</p>
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<p>Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the truth alone is strong;<br>
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Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong;<br>
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Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown,<br>
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Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.</p>
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