Here are a few lines from a poem by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) entitled The Present Crisis which might provide some comfort for you at the dawn of another year in these uncertain times.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Flasehood, for the good or evil side; . . .
Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong,
And albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng
Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.
Backward look across the ages and the beacon-moments see,
That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut through Oblivion's sea;. . .
Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record
One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word;
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,---
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne." Although wrong seems to be forever winning in this world, Truth is forever on the scaffold building a kingdom that will triumph in the end. Meanwhile, God is sovereign "keeping watch above His own."
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