The reveille / by John F.W. Ware.

  • John F. W. Ware
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The reveille / by John F.W. Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the drum-beat, if, after your morning parade, you are going to sleep again, instead of passing the day in active, vigilant duty ? It is the keeping awake which is to make you serviceable as a soldier; it is the keeping awake which is going to make you serviceable as a Christian. If you will do that, rouse yourself at the call made, and pray God ever for strength to keep awake, — if you will be alive to duty, vigilant against evil, doing always every- thing you possibly can to make yourself a better man, preparing by fidelity in the lower service of this life for a loftier service in the life beyond,— you will accomplish the great purpose of your war- fare here, and can depart with that honest self- approval which the Apostle had, — “I have fought the fight, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” “Arise! it is the Master’s wills No more his heavenly voice despise; Why linger with the dying still ? He calls: arouse you, and arise! No longer slight the Saviour’s call: It sounds to you, to me, to all. Arise!”
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