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Forth to the realms of darkness go

Where, like a river’s ceaseless flow,

A tide of souls is drifting down

Blasted beneath th’ Almighty’s frown.

No human skill nor power can stay

That flood upon its gloomy way;

But God’s own love devised the plan

To save the ruined creature, man.

Basil Manly Jr., from the original version of Manly’s hymn “Soldiers of Christ, In Truth Arrayed.” The “omitted stanzas” stopped being sung at Southern when Manly left the seminary in 1871 to become president of Georgetown College. This is from Michael Haykin’s excellent article on Manly in the Spring 2009 issue of the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology.

Only when we see how lost we are, we can find our way again. Only when we bury what’s dead can we experience life again. Only when we lose our religion can we be amazed by grace again.

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About Russell Moore

Russell Moore is Editor in Chief of Christianity Today and is the author of the forthcoming book Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America (Penguin Random House).

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