War - Abolished by Universal Peace

Hark! —the cry of death is raging
     Wildly from the reeking plain—
Guilty Glory too is flinging
     Proudly forth her vaunting strain.
Thousands on the field are lying,
     Slaughtered in the ruthless strike—
Wildly mangled, dead and dying,
     Show the waste of human life.
 
Christians! can you idly slumber
     While this work of Hell goes on?
Can you calmly sit and number
     Fellow beings, one by one.
On the field of battle falling—
     Sinking to a bloody grave?
Up! the God of Peace is calling—
     Calling upon you to save.
 
Listen to the supplications
     Of the widowed ones of earth!
Listen to the cry of nations
     Ringing loudly, wildly forth!
Nations bruised and crushed forever
     By the iron heel of War!
God of mercy!—wilt thou never
     Send deliverance from afar?
 
Yes!—a light is faintly gleaming
     Through the cloud that hovers o’er—
Soon the radiance of its beaming
     Full upon our land will pour—
‘Tis the light that tells the dawning
     Of the bright Millennial day,
Heralding its blessed morning
     With its peace bestowing ray.
 
God shall spread abroad his banner,
     Sign of Universal Peace—
And the earth shall shout Hosanna,
     And the reign of blood shall cease!
Man no more shall seek dominion
     Through a sea of human gore—
War shall spread its gloomy pinion
     O’er the peaceful earth no more.