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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|The First Article of the Methodist Faith Analyzed.|14-20}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|The First Article of the Methodist Faith Analyzed.|14-20}} | ||
... | {{Style P-Poem custom|poem=This wise God all the fools designed; | ||
This good God burns near all mankind; | |||
This great God yields the de’il the kirk; | |||
This perfect God does faulty work | |||
All, all was made by him, <nowiki>’</nowiki>tis said, | |||
Without him there was nothing made; | |||
Then to hell with him who says old Nick | |||
Begat himself by some damned trick. | |||
To reason thus may be too fast, | |||
For God may make things right at last; | |||
All ills may turn to joys supreme, | |||
And but remembered as a dream. | |||
So if he’s good all things are good; | |||
All, therefore, since he made them should | |||
Give him the credit, glory, praise | |||
For all their dirty, crooked ways. | |||
If God is wise then all are wise, | |||
For he made all below the skies; | |||
Supremely great, no power of course | |||
Could hinder his infinite force. | |||
So he does every arm employ, | |||
Whether to save or to destroy; | |||
And every mouth is his mouthpiece, | |||
Though they from lying never cease. | |||
The devil is his instrument— | |||
His time is in his service spent— | |||
Assassins do his sovereign will, | |||
And robbers his designs fulfil. | |||
The godhead we don’t comprehend, | |||
To knowledge great we don’t pretend; | |||
That three is one and one is three | |||
Remains to us a mystery, | |||
But on this mortal we insist | |||
’Tis nice to<ref name="editor-methodist-insertion" /> a Methodist; | |||
For its creed proves since Adam’s fall | |||
God is responsible for all.}} | |||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Archivist note|1=be<ref name="editor-methodist-insertion">The handwritten “be” in the left margin is preceded by an angular mark; another mark appears between “to” and “a” in the last stanza. The writer has not been identified.<!-- HANDWRITING-ATTRIBUTION-RECHECK --></ref>|2=left}} | |||
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Printed for the Free-thought Publishing Society, Colombo—<br>July, 1882. | |||
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