The anvil of God's Word
Last eve I paused beside a blacksmith's door,
And heard the anvil ring, the vesper chime.
And looking in I saw upon the floor,
Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.
"How many anvils have you had?" said I,
"To wear and batter out those hammers so?"
"Just one," said he, and then with twinkling eye,
"The anvil wears the hammers out, you know."
And so I thought, the Anvil of God's Word,
For ages skeptics blows have beat upon.
But tho the sound of falling blows is heard,
The Anvil still remains - the hammer's gone!
-John Clifford
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HAMMER AWAY, YE REBEL BANDS!
YOUR HAMMERS BREAK - GOD'S
ANVIL STANDS!
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For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper
than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner
of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrew 4:12
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words
shall not pass away. Matthew 24:35