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<\/a>This iteration of our weekly reprint series starts off, I\u2019ll admit, on a rather embarrassing note. \u00a0But it soon gets better: \u00a0Steadfast in Defense of Faith<\/em>: \u201cDavid Hume On Human and Divine Things: The Inescapability of Political Apologetics,\u201d<\/a> written by Louis Midgley<\/a>:<\/p>\n Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in Steadfast in Defense of Faith: Essays in Honor of Daniel C. Peterson<\/em>, edited by Shirley Ricks, Stephen D. Ricks, and Louis Midgley. For more information, go to https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/books\/steadfast-in-defense-of-faith\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cDaniel C. Peterson is a superb editor, expert writer, and solid scholar as well as a genuine friend. I am pleased to honor him with an essay that I hope he and others will find fresh and interesting.<\/p>\n I will begin by telling the story of my first chance\u2014or perhaps providential\u2014encounter with some of what David Hume (1711\u201376) published on politics, about which he wrote much, and then on what he often called \u201creligion.\u201d I have found that my opinions on politics, as I will indicate, have been strongly influenced by Hume. I will identify his opinions first about some of these human things that have come to fit rather snugly my own way of setting out and explaining politics and then also his critical appraisal of what is known as \u201cnatural theology,\u201d which I hope to demonstrate is consonant with the grounds of Latter-day Saint faith.\u201d<\/p>\n I share links with you to three articles that were recently published for Thanksgiving in Meridian Magazine<\/em>:. \u00a0The first is a rather odd one that I myself wrote. \u00a0It\u2019s weirdly personal, and I\u2019m afraid that I can\u2019t really recommend it. \u00a0The other two, though, are worth reading:<\/p>\n And here below are five other articles that I myself published for previous iterations of the American Thanksgiving holiday. \u00a0Perhaps you\u2019ll find a sentence or two from one of them to be worthwhile?<\/p>\n -2011-<\/strong><\/p>\n Autumn harvest festivals were and are common across Europe, and, as every American schoolchild once learned, our modern Thanksgiving celebrations descend from a meal shared between Massachusetts Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621.<\/p>\n It was not until 3 October 1863, however, that a uniform national holiday was established by presidential proclamation.\u00a0 Writing well into the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln declared that<\/p>\n \u201cThe year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.\u201d<\/p>\n After enumerating a substantial and very specific list of material blessings, Lincoln continued.<\/p>\n \u201cNo human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.\u201d<\/p>\n It is a remarkable document\u2014and not only for Abraham Lincoln\u2019s characteristic eloquence.<\/p>\n One is struck, for example, by Lincoln\u2019s sense of gratitude even amidst horrible death, destruction, and tragedy.\u00a0 The great battle at Gettysburg had concluded precisely three months before, and Lincoln himself would fall as one of the Civil War\u2019s last victims only eighteen months later.\u00a0 Yet he calls for national thanksgiving to God.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also impossible to miss the overt religiousness of the statement, and difficult to imagine a similar document emerging from any recent White House.\u00a0 Lincoln writes without embarrassment of God\u2019s grace and paternal care, and, perhaps even more notably today, of our sins and \u201cperverseness and disobedience,\u201d recognizing an authority far higher than his own that rules all human affairs and overrules all human power.<\/p>\n And this authority, Lincoln plainly understands, is a Person.\u00a0 Lincoln doesn\u2019t merely advise his fellow citizens to be satisfied that their fields are productive and to be happy at good weather.\u00a0 He counsels them to recognize a living, willing, conscious Being behind those \u201cgifts,\u201d and to thank that Being for them.<\/p>\n To recognize a divine Person behind nature and human history, to perceive an ultimate and inconceivably powerful Will beneath and beyond the shifting phenomena of our lives and the world, is a characteristic mark of the religious attitude\u2014and submission to that Will, and gratitude to that Person, are among the virtues advocated by all religions of the Abrahamic tradition and most religions worldwide.<\/p>\n Anybody can be happy with his or her material state, satisfied that things are going well, relieved that they\u2019re not going as badly as they could have gone.\u00a0 And everybody should, if possible, devote Thanksgiving Day to strengthening relationships with family and friends.\u00a0 (Most of us, nowadays, eat so very well throughout the year that the Thanksgiving meal in itself is, relatively speaking, unimportant.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t just \u201cTurkey Day\u201d; Lincoln\u2019s proclamation says nothing about food.)<\/p>\n But thanks can only meaningfully be given to persons.\u00a0 Thus, if Thanksgiving is to be practiced as the sixteenth president of the United States\u2014perhaps our greatest\u2014advised, it must expressly involve gratitude to God.<\/p>\n -2012-<\/strong><\/p>\n William Ernest Henley\u2019s famous Victorian-era poem \u201cInvictus\u201d provided the title and the theme for Clint Eastwood\u2019s inspiring 2009 film about Nelson Mandela.\u00a0 It also provided the memorable claim \u201cI am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s a stirring assertion, and, in a very real sense, true.\u00a0 A great proportion of what we are and do rests upon our own decisions.<\/p>\n But not everything, and perhaps not the most important things. \u00a0Henley\u2019s claim is also false and misleading.<\/p>\n As I write, a friend and neighbor is recuperating from a catastrophic fall that lacerated his face, took out most of his teeth, broke major bones everywhere in his body, and very nearly killed him.\u00a0 As he plunged groundwards, he certainly wasn\u2019t the master of his fate, and he\u2019s scarcely more so as he lies in a hospital bed.\u00a0 Those who\u2019ve surveyed the spot where he landed, closely bordered by objects that could instantly have ended his life, regard his survival as a miracle, and he himself, speaking with difficulty, testifies to it.<\/p>\n \u201cI thank whatever gods may be,\u201d says Henley, \u201cfor my unconquerable soul.\u201d<\/p>\n Thirty years ago, my wife and I traveled with our infant son from southern California to her parents\u2019 house in Denver, Colorado, where the whole extended family were gathering for a Christmas trip to Florida.\u00a0 We participated in a \u201cMessiah\u201d sing-along and then went home to prepare for our flight to Orlando the next morning.<\/p>\n But then came what\u2019s been called \u201cthe Christmas Eve blizzard of 1982.\u201d\u00a0 Stapleton International Airport closed at 9:30 AM on 24 December, remained closed for fully thirty-three hours, and then, for several days thereafter, was open only for severely limited operations.\u00a0 Ten-foot-high snowdrifts were left throughout greater Denver, highways into and out of the city were shut down, power outages darkened large portions of the metropolitan area, roofs collapsed, supermarkets closed because their employees couldn\u2019t get to work, hospitals were reduced to minimal staff on emergency power, and snowmobiles dominated suburban streets.<\/p>\n It was astounding to me, and revealing, to realize how easily simple snowfall could shut down a major modern city quite accustomed to seeing it.<\/p>\n We\u2019re plainly not entirely the masters of our fates, the captains of our souls.\u00a0 Rather, as Elder Orson F. Whitney (d. 1931) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles put it in \u201cThe Soul\u2019s Captain,\u201d his response to \u201cInvictus,\u201d \u201cMen are as bubbles on the wave, as leaves upon the tree.\u201d<\/p>\n We\u2019re fragile creatures.\u00a0 A few days without food, even fewer without water, a few minutes without oxygen, and we\u2019re gone.\u00a0 If our hearts miss just a few beats, none of our plans, ambitions, schemes, or careful investments will mean a thing.\u00a0 And, in the end, no matter how we fight it, we\u2019ll die.<\/p>\n Our comfort and survival in the meantime depend upon cycles of evaporation and precipitation that few of us really understand, and we rely upon complex networks of exchange and transportation that very few of us could begin to explain.<\/p>\n The ground on which most of us live and where our food is grown was cleared of rocks, trees, and stumps by millions of hardworking people whose names we\u2019ve forgotten.\u00a0 Our cities\u2014big and small\u2014feature large buildings erected by generations of construction workers to whom we\u2019ve probably never given the slightest thought.<\/p>\n We owe a debt of gratitude that we can never repay.\u00a0 \u201cFor behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend upon . . . God, for all the substance which we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver, and for all the riches which we have of every kind?\u201d (Mosiah 4:19).\u00a0 The Book of Mormon\u2019s Amulek wisely counsels us that we should \u201chumble ourselves even to the dust, and worship God, in whatsoever place we may be in, in spirit and in truth; and that we live in thanksgiving daily, for the many mercies and blessings which he doth bestow upon us\u201d (paraphrased slightly from Alma 34:38).<\/p>\n In the United States of America, where many of us are gathering together as families and friends for the Thanksgiving holiday, this is an exceptionally appropriate day for us to remember the debt that we owe to those who\u2019ve preceded us and to God, \u201cin whom we live, and move, and have our being\u201d (Acts 17:28).<\/p>\n -2013, with the late William J. Hamblin-<\/strong><\/p>\n American traditions of Thanksgiving are generally associated with Puritan harvest feasts in early colonial times, and particularly with the one in October 1621, when Chief Massasoit and about 90 other Native American men joined slightly more than 50 European immigrants at Plymouth Colony, in today\u2019s Massachusetts, for a communal meal.\u00a0 Abraham Lincoln\u2019s formal proclamation of a late-November \u201cDay of Thanksgiving and Praise\u201d came just 150 years ago, in 1863.\u00a0 However, religious festivals of thanksgiving associated with the agricultural cycle, thanking God for a bounteous harvest \u2013 essential to life through the winter \u2014 are much more ancient and universal, and can be found in most religious traditions of the world.\u00a0 In ancient agrarian societies, where survival ultimately depended on rain and on the fertility cycles of local plants and animals, a failed harvest could swiftly bring widespread disaster and death.\u00a0 Accordingly, a bountiful harvest was received with gratitude.<\/p>\n The sacrifices and festivals of ancient Israel were likewise fundamentally linked to the annual seasons of planting and reaping.\u00a0 One of their sacrifices was actually called the \u201cthanksgiving\u201d (Hebrew \u201ctodah\u201d).\u00a0 As described in Leviticus 7:11-15, the thanksgiving offering was an entire meal, including fried cakes, bread and meat.\u00a0 Furthermore, it was commanded that \u201cthe flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered.\u201d\u00a0 That is, the ancient Israelite thanksgiving sacrifice was a sacred feast, a meal in which the food offerings were symbolically shared with God but were literally eaten by the sacrificer.\u00a0 In ancient Israel, such a \u201choliday feast\u201d\u2014as we now describe it\u2014was actually a \u201choly-day feast.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the fundamental psalms sung by the Levite choir each day at the temple was \u201cO give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, and his mercy endures forever\u201d (Psalms 106, 107, 118, 136, 138; 1 Chronicles. 16:7, 34, 23:30; 2 Chronicles. 5:13, 7:6; Nehemiah 12:8).\u00a0 One could enter the Israelite temple only if one \u201centered the gates with thanksgiving\u201d (Psalms 100:4 95:2).\u00a0 Psalm 50 describes the characteristics of the \u201cthanksgiving sacrifice\u201d (50:15): \u201che who offers thanksgiving (Hebrew \u201ctodah\u201d) glorifies me\u201d (50:23; cf. Psalm 116:17).\u00a0 When Jeremiah prophesied of the future restoration of Jerusalem and its temple, which was to come following the Babylonian captivity, he predicted that the returning Jews would \u201cbring thank offerings to the house of the Lord\u201d (Jeremiah 17:26), singing \u201csongs of thanksgiving\u201d (Jeremiah 30:19).\u00a0 Jeremiah likewise prophesied that in Jerusalem should again be heard \u201cthe voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride . . . as they bring the thanksgiving sacrifice (Hebrew \u201ctodah\u201d) into the House of the Lord\u201d (Jeremiah 33:11).<\/p>\n In the New Testament, Christ is twice described as giving thanks in the context of a sacred meal.\u00a0 At the feeding of the 5000, he took the loaves and fish and, \u201chaving given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds\u201d (Matthew 15:36; Mark 8:6; John 6:11).\u00a0 In the old Israelite thanksgiving sacrifice, the people were to bring food to the temple and give it to the priests, who would then offer it to God.\u00a0 Now, in a paradoxical reversal of the old order, Christ, as God incarnate, brings the food, offers thanks, and gives it to his apostle-priests who then offer it to the people.\u00a0 The old order of the thanksgiving offering is thus reversed.<\/p>\n The same reversal of roles is found at the Last Supper, where, at the Passover dinner, Jesus gives thanks and shares a sacred meal with his apostles (Matthew 26:37; Mark 14:23; Luke 22:17, 19; 1 Corinthians 11:24).\u00a0 Christ\u2019s atoning sacrifice has thus become a \u201cthanksgiving offering.\u201d\u00a0 Although in the Latter-day Saint tradition we tend to call our commemoration of the Last Supper the \u201csacrament,\u201d in ancient Christianity it was referred to as the Eucharist\u2014 the \u201cthanksgiving\u201d.\u00a0 This is because Christ is described as having \u201cgiven thanks\u201d at the Last Supper\u2014in Greek, \u201ceucharistesas.\u201d\u00a0 (Still today, the modern Greek equivalent of \u201cthank you\u201d is \u201cefkharisto.\u201d)\u00a0 Thus, for Latter-day Saint Christians, the sacrament is our commemoration of the archetypal thanksgiving sacrifice and meal of ancient Israel, of which our modern Thanksgiving holiday is only a pale shadow. \u00a0Appropriately, too, for many Americans Thanksgiving kicks off the serious holiday season that culminates in Christmas, which recalls God\u2019s greatest gift to us, his Son.<\/p>\n -2014-<\/strong><\/p>\n Many years ago, a friend (now deceased) told me about a very high-ranking Church leader (also now deceased) who had been asked to address a group of local senior service missionaries and their wives at their annual Christmas dinner.<\/p>\n As the program proceeded, various stories were related to illustrate the great things that this group of devoted volunteers had accomplished during the year then nearing its end.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the Church leader, still waiting to offer his concluding remarks, was growing concerned at what struck him as the evening\u2019s self-congratulatory tone.<\/p>\n Finally, his turn came to speak.\u00a0 He had been allotted roughly half an hour, but he jettisoned his prepared text.\u00a0 Instead, he simply opened his scriptures to Mosiah 2:20-21, and read it to his audience:<\/p>\n \u201cI say unto you, my brethren, that if you should render all the thanks and praise which your whole soul has power to possess, to that God who has created you, and has kept and preserved you, and has caused that ye should rejoice, and has granted that ye should live in peace one with another\u2014<\/p>\n \u201cI say unto you that if ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from one moment to another\u2014I say, if ye should serve him with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants.\u201d<\/p>\n He then bore a brief testimony of Christ and sat down.\u00a0 The rebuke was quiet but unmistakable, and my friend had remembered it for years by the time he told me about it.<\/p>\n Today is a day for giving thanks\u2014uniquely and officially so in America, but appropriately so everywhere\u2014for the remarkable blessings that we enjoy.\u00a0 We have far more to be grateful for than we can begin to recognize or enumerate, and it should leave us deeply humble.<\/p>\n We enjoy food, nourished by soil and weather we didn\u2019t create, that we neither planted nor harvested.\u00a0 It\u2019s brought to us via roads and rails and ships constructed by people whose names we don\u2019t know, and we prepare it with fuels and implements that we didn\u2019t produce.<\/p>\n We communicate worldwide virtually for free.\u00a0 Films, computers, television, and radio put almost unlimited information at our fingertips, including remarkable ways of researching family history.<\/p>\n We benefit from a level of nutrition, health, and comfort that would have been unimaginable to our ancestors, many of whom suffered throughout their lives from rotten teeth and incurable ailments.\u00a0 Only a few generations ago, even the simplest diseases stymied the best physicians.\u00a0 Dentists and surgeons did their work without sterilization or anesthesia.\u00a0 But, until fairly recently, there were no hip replacements or arthroscopic knee surgeries anyway, and, not very long before that, there were no aspirin tablets and no corrective lenses.\u00a0 If you had a headache, you simply endured it until it went away.\u00a0 If your eyes or knees went bad, you lived with it until you died.<\/p>\n Prior to a couple of centuries ago, all transportation was on foot, or on or behind an animal, or blown by the wind.\u00a0 Ramses II, Augustus Caesar, Queen Elizabeth I of England, and George Washington all traveled roughly the same way.\u00a0 Today, by contrast, we cruise along comfortably in climate-controlled bubbles at speeds they never knew, listening to the Beatles (including John Lennon and George Harrison, who\u2019ve been dead for years) or to the Vienna Philharmonic.<\/p>\n We typically take this all for granted.\u00a0 We even complain about it.\u00a0 Several years ago, I found myself wedged between two strangers on a flight from Chicago to Salt Lake City.\u00a0 The flight attendant gave me only pretzels, and the flight dragged on for more than four hours!\u00a0 Suddenly though, I thought of the handcart pioneers.\u00a0 Only 150 years before, they had followed essentially the same route, thousands of feet below me, over rivers, through brush and rocks, under rain and sometimes snow, requiring several months to complete their journey.\u00a0 My whining might not have impressed them favorably.<\/p>\n And the Gospel is on earth again.\u00a0 In other words, to put it flippantly, we\u2019ve won the cosmic lottery.<\/p>\n Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; A very happy Thanksgiving to everyone.<\/p>\n -2015-<\/strong><\/p>\n Although American Thanksgiving Day began as a harvest festival, it\u2019s not about eating.\u00a0 Most of us eat quite well\u2014often too well\u2014every day, so meals aren\u2019t special.\u00a0 It\u2019s not even really about family.\u00a0 As its name implies, it\u2019s about giving thanks.<\/p>\n And we have much for which to be thankful.<\/p>\n Why is there a universe in the first place?\u00a0 Why is it so precisely fine-tuned as to produce us?\u00a0 The great twentieth-century atheistic astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle concluded, rather grumpily, that the whole thing is \u201ca put-up job,\u201d that \u201ca superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology.\u201d \u00a0\u201cAs we look out into the universe,\u201d wrote the Anglo-American mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson, of Princeton\u2019s Institute for Advanced Study, \u201cand identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the universe must in some sense have known that we were coming.\u201d<\/p>\n Ours, says the British physicist Paul Davies, is \u201ca Goldilocks Universe.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s \u201cjust right.\u201d\u00a0 And so is the globe on which we live, as demonstrated in recent books bearing such titles as \u201cPrivileged Planet\u201d and \u201cRare Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n Our bodies are phenomenally complicated; our brains, some scientists say, are the most physically complex objects in the known universe.\u00a0 Stars and galaxies are simple in comparison.<\/p>\n Most readers of this column enjoy the privilege of American citizenship, or of something rather like it.\u00a0 There are, today, a number of free countries that respect human rights.\u00a0 But many are unfree and oppressive.\u00a0 There are many prosperous nations, too\u2014but also many that are very poor.\u00a0 We should be mindful of those less fortunate than ourselves, but also grateful for the blessings that we enjoy and not complacent about them.<\/p>\n Although most of us are isolated or insulated from the production of food and take it for granted, we have easy access to diets of a richness and variety that would have been unimaginable even to our relatively recent ancestors and to many in the world still today.<\/p>\n Gutenberg\u2019s printing press and, now, ebooks and the Web and powerful search engines, grant us easy access to vast treasuries of knowledge.\u00a0 Cell phones and cheap and instant Internet communications keep us in contact, wherever we are. \u00a0As we hurtle along in climate-controlled automobiles or jet aircraft, we listen, if the mood strikes us, to concerts by U2, or Taylor Swift, or the Berlin Philharmonic.\u00a0 And we lament journeys of several hours that, not so long ago, would have required uncomfortable days if not miserable and dangerous weeks.\u00a0 GPS systems guide us at every step, taking us from driveway to driveway, thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n Of course, no technical marvel changes life\u2019s fundamentals.\u00a0 We still love family and friends.\u00a0 We still lose them.\u00a0 We become sick and, despite superb healthcare (including antibiotics and surgical procedures unknown to our grandparents), we die.\u00a0 We suffer from the human evils of oppression, crime, cruelty, and war.\u00a0 We endure mental and emotional illnesses, and virtually all of us know someone whose life has been damaged or even ruined by the scourge of drugs.<\/p>\n So, more than for anything else, we who\u2019ve been privileged to learn of the Gospel of Christ should be thankful for his atonement and resurrection, which can mend all broken things and make all good things eternal.\u00a0 The power is not ours, but his.\u00a0 I close with powerful words from two hymns, the first from Rudyard Kipling and the second a Latin text derived from Psalm 115:1 and most recently set to memorable music by the great film composer Patrick Doyle:<\/p>\n God of our fathers, known of old, The tumult and the shouting dies; Far-called, our navies melt away; \u201cNon nobis, Domine, non nobis,\u2028sed nomini tuo da gloriam.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cNot unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to thy name give the glory.\u201d<\/p>\n Thanks be to God.<\/p>\n Posted from Park City, Utah<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 This iteration of our weekly reprint series starts off, I\u2019ll admit, on a rather embarrassing note. \u00a0But it soon gets better: \u00a0Steadfast in Defense of Faith: \u201cDavid Hume On Human and Divine Things: The Inescapability of Political Apologetics,\u201d written by Louis Midgley: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in 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Wikimedia Commons public domain. Although it was Christians who first celebrated a Thanksgiving festival in America, there is nothing in the concept of Thanksgiving that restricts it to Christians. \u00a0But it may, in sense, require theism for its full meaning.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n\n
\nPraise him, all creatures here below;
\nPraise him above, ye heavenly host;
\nPraise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nLord of our far-flung battle-line,
\nBeneath whose awful Hand we hold
\nDominion over palm and pine\u2014
\nLord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
\nLest we forget\u2014lest we forget!<\/p>\n
\nThe Captains and the Kings depart:
\nStill stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
\nAn humble and a contrite heart.
\nLord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
\nLest we forget\u2014lest we forget!<\/p>\n
\nOn dune and headland sinks the fire:
\nLo, all our pomp of yesterday
\nIs one with Nineveh and Tyre!
\nJudge of the Nations, spare us yet,
\nLest we forget\u2014lest we forget!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n