WHAT king was by his mother pious lessons taught?
Who once the hill Samaria of Shemer bought?
Where did a prophet make a chosen king his guest?
Where did Paul narrowly escape arrest?
What godly man resided with a wicked king?
What ruler trembled when he heard Paul arguing?
Whence came a woman for a banished son to plead?
Where did the son of Amram lead his flock to feed?
What grandson, by the patriarch’s prophetic hand
Exalted, claimed the choicest blessings of the land?
What monarch’s servants carried with them shields of gold
Who suddenly fell dead when he a falsehood told?
Who craftily with Baanah Ishbosheth slew?
What fruitful tree did Christ compare Himself unto?
What prophet, while a minstrel played, once prophesied?
Where Jacob built a house wherein he might reside.
Where stood the image Molech, and mid rites most dire,
Where infant children made an offering by fire?
When autumn weeks the spreading fields adorn
With the ripe ears of waving yellow corn,
They praise His love who know His guardian care,
Whose name in these initials will appear,
With faith’s eye too, to some the broad earth yields
Wide Gospel scenes like autumn’s ripened fields;
And calling for the laborers to come,
Thy servants pray, Lord, take thy harvest home.