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This is the world's stupendous hour- / The supreme moment for the race / To see the emptiness of power, / The worthlessness of wealth and place, / To see the purpose and the plan / Conceived by God for growing man.
And they who see and comprehend / That ultimate and lofty aim / Will wait in patience for the end, / Knowing injustice cannot claim / One lasting victory, or control / Laws that bar progress for the whole.
This is an epoch-making time; / God thunders through the universe / A message glorious and sublime, / At once a blessing and a curse. / Blessings for those who seek His light, / Curses for those whose law is might.
Ephemeral as the sunset glow / Is human grandeur. Mortal life / Was given that souls might seek and know / Immortal truths; and through the strife / That shakes the earth from land to land / The wise shall hear and understand.
Out of the awful holocaust, / Out of the whirlwind and the flood, / Out of old creeds to Bedlam tossed, / Shall rise a new earth washed in blood- / A new race filled with spirit power, / _This is the world's stupendous hour_.