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by L B Cowman
Our Soul is Like an Eagle
You cannot detain the eagle in the forest. You
may gather around him a chorus of the choicest birds; you may give him a perch
on the goodliest pine; you may charge winged messengers to bring him choicest
dainties; but he will spurn them all. Spreading his lofty wings, and with his
eye on the Alpine cliff, he will soar away to his own ancestral halls amid the
munition of rocks and the wild music of tempest and waterfall.
The soul of man, in its eagle soarings, will rest with nothing short of the Rock
of Ages. Its ancestral halls are the halls of Heaven. Its munitions of rocks are
the attributes of God. The sweep of its majestic flight is Eternity! "Lord, THOU
hast been our dwelling place in all generations."
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"My Home is God Himself"; Christ brought me there.
"My Home is God Himself"; it was not so!
And now "my Home is God," and sheltered there,
--Macduff
I laid me down within His mighty arms;
He took me up, and safe from all alarms
He bore me "where no foot but His hath trod,"
Within the holiest at Home with God,
And bade me dwell in Him, rejoicing there.
O Holy Place! O Home divinely fair!
And we, God's little ones, abiding there.
A long, long road I traveled night and day,
And sought to find within myself some way,
Aught I could do, or feel to bring me near;
Self effort failed, and I was filled with fear,
And then I found Christ was the only way,
That I must come to Him and in Him stay,
And God had told me so.
God meets the trials of my earthly life,
God compasses me round from storm and strife,
God takes the burden of my daily care.
O Wondrous Place! O Home divinely fair!
And I, God's little one, safe hidden there.
Lord, as I dwell in Thee and Thou in me,
So make me dead to everything but Thee;
That as I rest within my Home most fair,
My soul may evermore and only see
My God in everything and everywhere;
My Home is God.
--Author Unknown
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