Sunday Snippets # 13 -------------------- 8 Jan 95 [Forward this to a friend!] "A few more setting suns at most... " This is a fine poem I found on a bookmark. The context: The poet, Maj. John Andre, wrote this while awaiting his execution (by hanging) as a spy on 2 Oct. 1780 during the U.S.Revolutionary War. Just two days before his death, the major was converted to Christ, and in that short time composed this poem as a testimony to his experience. MY HIDING PLACE Hail, sovereign love, which first began The scheme to rescue fallen man! Hail, matchless, free, eternal grace, That gave my soul a Hiding Place! Against the God who built the sky, I fought with hands uplifted high, Despised the mention of His grace, Too proud to seek a Hiding Place. Enwrapt in thick Egyptian night, And fond of darkness more than light, Madly I ran the sinful race, 'Secure' without a Hiding Place. But thus the eternal counsel ran: "Almighty love, arrest that man!" I felt the arrows of distress, And found I had no hiding place. Indignant Justice stood aview. To Sinai's fiery mount I flew; But Justice cried, with frowning face: "This mountain is no hiding place." Ere long a heavenly voice I heard, And Mercy's angel soon appeared; He led me at a placid pace, To Jesus, as a Hiding Place. On Him almighty vengeance fell, Which must have sunk a world to hell. He bore it for a sinful race, And thus became their Hiding Place. Should sevenfold storms of thunder roll, And shake this globe from pole to pole, No thunderbolt shall daunt my face, For Jesus is mt Hiding Place. A few more setting suns at most, Shall land me on fair Canaan's coast, Where I shall sing the song of grace, And see my glorious Hiding Place. - Major John Andre --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday Snippets copyright 1995 by G. MacKenzie Strickland. May be freely redistributed (unmodified). Direct requests for a weekly subscription to Snippets, or inquiries about author to --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do yourself & your community a good turn: Go to church on Sunday. --------------------------------------------------- file: /pub/resources/text/sunday.snippets: snip95-13.txt .