Show ADDRESS OF WELCOME TO ELDER JOHN TAYLOR On His Visit to the Isle of Man in 1850 DY Hail Faithful messenger of peace Orce more V t We bid thee welcome to our island shore No earthly monarch nations love and own So welcome is to fill the regal throne As thou to visit Monaa seagirt isle That we may hear thy voice and see thy smile Twi2i be to us as Zona hill the while We raise no banner waving to the breez0 With gilded motto and device to please We rear no arch by Floras baud bedecked be-decked Nor with the merry chime pal our reject We cannot bid lj swell the music strain ITo I-To make thee welcome to cur midst gain We bow no knee we use no flittering I art These are repugnant to thy noble heart But if to breathe for thee the anxious sigh To Him who dwells above yon azure sky If every thought and holiest wirh we know Will prove a tribute worthy to bestow If pure affection burning for thy blits Can show a welcome in a world like this Then these are thine and everwelling flow Th tflusions of the gratitude we owe Twas thou who first obedient to thy LcrJ J Proclaimed ou Monas Isle the precious Word While yet in darkness we unconscious lay I Nor dreamed the dawning of a brighter day While Error reigned supreme around our globe Tradition held us in her misty robe While racking doubt uncertainty and fear Were all we knew of peace and knowledge knowl-edge hereBy here-By thee eternal truth in radiance shrined And sable night dispelled from every mind In glowing eloquence the gospel scheme startled our fears and roused us from our dream And rending fearlessly the robe of lies i i Thy light burst on our longbenighted eyes Toe spell that bound us in our doubts was broken Thou saidatwho could resist it GoD HAS SPOKEN I Thy testimony we could not withstand And yielded v i lingly to Gods command And now we feel though earth and hell assail The word of God through thee crn never fail Well may we than attune our grateful praise r For messengers like thee in Latter Days Thy valiant soul no hostile image feared But leadst the way where Zions standards stand-ards reared Weve watched thy steady course with anxious eye When peace abounded and when foes were nigh In that thy cheering light from Zions hill Shone on our path and made us love thee stilt In this when hell seemed furiously arrayed ar-rayed Against the cause thy valor was displayed dis-played Firm to the last in Zions holy cause Thou atoodst beside the martyrs of the cross Became a witness to th atrocious dc pd That angels wept at and made Zion bleed And as thy wounded body prostrate lay Gods will was thineto go with them or stay If those who every energy employ i Of mind and body nations to destroy Shall with the heroes swordcropt wreaths be crowned And learned historians rcord the wound Shalt thou no sacred meed of honor have For scars like thine while striving men to save Yes Well perpetuate thy name on earth And angels too eternalize thy worth But lathe our attempts to spread thy fame Thouet won thyself an everhallowel name Thy noble deeds thy cultivated mind Thy generous soul to benefit mankind The pure desires thy heart that animate To place man in a more exalted slate Heed but be known to make the good approve ap-prove The saints admire evn enemies to love No whit behind thy ancient brother Paul Thou knowest how to be ceall things to all The prince and peasant poor man and the peer Thy happy soul can teach persuade and cheer The lisping child when prattling on thy knee Looks up and tells its tale of woe or glee Feels from thy tongue the generous Impulse Im-pulse glow Smiles with thy smile forgets its little woe The sage philosopher the skilled in arts The eon of genius nod the man of partF May lew their problems and their classic clas-sic lore Artistic works oer which they anxious pore Admirethe reasoning of thy master mind Which scatters labored theories to the wiLd Return to s udy and lo Ubratory And own the lru h sublime of power and glory Well may we love thee who art loved of God Chosen by Him to spread HB work abroad Ere the Isrrestial sphere we tread upon Keceive3 th embraces of the smiling BUD He knew thee and that thy capacious soul Would long to make th eternal purpose roll Spread truth and knowledge like HaMs beams before thee Till earth should frel the promised later glory When all of truth the heavens have con cealei Shall be for mans full destiny revealed We proudly feel the wisdom of Godi choice I And hearts of thousands gladden at thy voice And our prophetic eve can faintly trace Tho rising footsteps to the highest place With thee and thy cochampionsin arms We dread no foe we fear not hells alarms The kingdom must extend the truth succeed When Three and Twelve such mighty generals lad l Great is the work beyond poor mortals ken But God ha chosen the greatest best ana noblest men With such as thee were proud to associate asso-ciate And claim a kinship with the good and great They Gods our God thy people we will choose The enemies if any be our foes Where thcu wit dwell there too we would abide In danger or in death ba at thy side In weal or woe whatever be our lo f By friends despised or by the world for RO ROj We hope by faithfulness we soon sba 1 be Gathered on Ziona happy land wish thee To dwell through endless time with those we love Else twere no heaven no happiness twould prove Linked with the priesthoods chain no power can sever With Christ with bll the good and thee to live forever The author withholds his name teat un just motives might be attriluttd to him |