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We must fill those homes with gladness, And make the Saviour known. We shall do it by and by.
2 There are drink- bound slaves around us Who writhe in helpless woe;
We must snap the bonds that bind them And lay the tyrant low: spis There are wives and mothers weeping, Whose hearts are cold and sad; We must give them joyous greeting, And bid them yet be glad.
3 There are crowds of little children ere Deep sunk in sin and night; We must raise them from their darkness, And lead them up to light; There are good men filled with sorrow O'er seed they've sown in vain: We must show them the destroyer, And urge them to abstain.
4 There's the huge and cursed system Of drink, and sin, and fraud; We must cast it forth with loathing, Abhorred by man and God. Let us then gird on our armour, And God our strength will be, He our hosts is onward leading To certain victory.
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THEN wilt Thou save the people?
Not kings and lords, but nations!
Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flowers of Thy heart, O God, are they; Let them not pass, like weeds, awayTheir heritage a sunless day.
God save the people!