| Show A response to P P pratts fiftieth year BY JOHN TAYLOR taylon TI A ou art fifty years old I 1 am glad to see that thou now canet hope for a jubilee go rest thee my friend for weary and long thou hast bast faithfully strove with a wayward thio thic throng ilig with a world environed with errors chain chains thou hast bast wrestled and a struggled but not in vain on thy native shore and ebid on foreign iland thou liast hast battled for truth with a maiter mas mar terhand haid hald bait s and their C cities and towns and aud li hamlets klets lid iid have e rung rudig with the sound of bf truth with the voice of song and thousands in zion do now rejoice I 1 dhove read thy works or heard thy voice and aud millions have laidve seen thy bosom swell with celestial truths thou loest so well let drivelling dri velling sycophants bow the knee to that ce shrine popularity and with honeyb lips bound with cammons mam mons spell plaster P aster over the vices they dard not tell and with wheedling whining canting tongue daub oyei olei oer the deeds of a hellish throng thine the mark from their loathsome face to rend and aud exhibit their foul oui disgrace thou last hast grappled with sages in error rife thou hast taught to the erring the way of life I 1 with flaming words and arld a burning pen pan thou last hast bearded gaunt gaunt ili in his den and said to BA bauls baals ails alls grizzly priests prie Ets avaunt I 1 dare you ili in your dark ghastly haunt and the canting craven millions minions fled at tile the truths thou penned and the words thou said with elijass Eli jahs faith ralth and elijass Eli jahs rod thou despised their power and defied their god and made the canting hirelings cower beneath the truth truths s keen withering power thou showed them their systems wera dooma to fall that was written on babes wall thou hast spent midst their hoar dsa busy life thou art leaving the dell deu of their babel strife let others ethers no bov v mid the nations roam ardd arid hie thee thy mountain home homa if sleeping at night the weary may forget the cares and toils of the ilia day and if by god to man is given A day of rest in every seven if the possession could be restored on the grand release by Jehova hs word if the debtors bonds could then be broke and the slave be freed from a masters yo yoke yoe e and the very land a partaker be of the general jubilant jubilee i if all bonds were broken on that day f and chains and manacles maracles man acles ti thrown i rown away if throughout the thal land by every tongue all j joined blued iu in the joyous jubilee song ll 11 I 1 if debtors and slaves and earth were free thou ough test to have a Jubil jubilee jubliee ed I 1 if a wish from a sincere friendly heart can to thee any comfort or joy impart if a fervent prayer to the god of grace could smooth thy path on thy onward race that prayer would be lie let grace be given to wend thy onward course to heaven thou abound in corn and wine and the blessings of plenty now be thine may thy family all be free from care and a husbands and fathers plenty share may alay thy sun go down with glory rife and dying deg thou burst into life and when sleeping among the silent dead have the blessings of millions oil on thy hend head and living with god thou be free and partake of an endless jubilee |
