General (Vol. 3)

Article Sections

Contents

  1. Unblemished Lamb
  2. God's Music
  3. Judgement
  4. Praise to the Trinity
  5. Living and Speaking
  6. When Iseael Wept
  7. Source of Sacred Light
  8. Jesus is Living in Everyone
  9. Year End
  10. The Turbulent Day
  11. The Softest Touch
  12. Children of God
  13. Following Jesus
  14. Lord of All
  15. The Word Made Flesh
  16. O Light, O Word, O Flesh
  17. Living Trinity
  18. Holy Family
  19. Peace
  20. Poor But Rich
  21. Courage, My Soul
  22. Clear as the Starry Skies
  23. A New Start
  24. I Want to Walk With You
  25. Success and Failure
  26. The Bridge of Love
  27. The Holy Catholic Church
  28. The Trinity In History
  29. Home and Away
  30. O Light Beyond
  31. Faith in Uncertainty
  32. Hymn for the Abandoned
  33. The Sacramental Church
  34. Comfort in the Lord
  35. Together in God
  36. There is Love
  37. Stretch Out
  38. For the Troubled
  39. Jesus Our Saviour
  40. Sacred Paradox
  41. On Hearing Rowan Cantuar's Installation Address
  42. Justification
  43. Symbiosis
  44. Child
  45. Infinite
  46. The Clouds of War
  47. Tribute
  48. Returnings
  49. Towering Peaks
  50. The Kingdom

Towering Peaks

  1. Above the throbbing pulse of man,
    Machinery of blood and strife,
    The restless clutching of the hand,
    The febrile calculus of life,
    Our Lord supreme in tranquil state
    Surveys the battlefield below,
    Lending His aid to all who fight
    Our cunning, cruel and subtle foe.
  2. Yet he is found choked by the stench,
    Amid the squalor and the gloom,
    Stumbling in the crumbling trench,
    The mourner at the shell hole tomb;
    He wills his people at their best
    To bend their wills to Him who gave
    Eternal hope to the oppressed
    Beyond their torture and the grave.
  3. So we who may enjoy this world,
    Whose hand of cards contains an ace,
    Should better play what He has dealt
    With patience, sacrifice and grace;
    The challenge of the needle's eye,
    Though stern, is equal to the gift
    Proclaimed in blood and prophesy
    To sober, nourish and uplift.
  4. Our eyes are set beyond the plain
    To peaks of everlasting peace,
    The cool refreshment of the brain,
    The anxious soul's benign release
    Where all conditions of our race
    Will gather in a loving throng,
    And we will recognise the place
    As the true home where we belong.