24 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 16

POETRY.

SURVIVAL.

(To the Author of " The Survival of Jesus.") WHO of mere nature with assurance know their souls, my friend, immortal souls to he, Trill know, with like assurance, this: that He, the Best of souls, must be alive also; Or if, whatever creeds may come and go, we hold that He survives assuredly, Who all-forsaken died on Calvary, then, other souls outlast death's deepest woe.

Traditions need not vouch the living fact, and cannot. Here and now the Saviour is, or never was, nor will be, anywhere; Who takes earth's essence in the wonder-act of Consecration, makes it very His, and makes our souls immortal as our prayer.