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Dane’s Dirge
I love the LORD and His
church;
I know for this truth many
have been hurt.
God gave His Son for her,
Christ our blessed LORD;
He only asked we love her
by keeping His Word.
After 20 years His
minister, they excluded me.
The charge, God used
modern man don’t you see;
Heretics, Wesley, Moody,
Finny, and Rice,
For we have a split
commission is why Christ died.
So we are gathered here
today, we wouldn’t take wrong,
Church don’t
mean much, let’s all get along.
They say we are trouble makers, we cause hurt;
Christ died for man and
not His church.
But we’re old fashioned
and believe her, His Bride,
We love her; she was born
from His side.
We believe in all the Bible, not modern man;
For this great truth, a
few have taken a stand.
Fifty million martyrs and
all true Baptists have stood through the years,
Untold blood and sweat and
many many tears.
So we lost a piece of
earthly property and land;
Nothing, no Satan, not
heretics, can take away our Stand.
They may make fun of us
and even kill us too;
They will never take away
our Faith and Truth.
We haven’t
long left for this wicked land;
We stand a proud people
because of our Stand.
For ten years
I pastored what used to be a church;
In six months
they embraced heresy, regardless of the hurt.
I’m not talking of myself or
you that’s gathered here,
But my Jesus and His Bride,
that’s who has been so dear.
We’ll go on believing what
Jesus said
In Ephesians 3:21 until
the raising of the dead.
We can hold high this race
to run,
And hear Christ say, “Come my
people, well done.”
Few of us won’t be here too many more days,
So I encourage you younger,
it takes grace.
Christ told us, we would be hated,
This is the truth today;
in John 17 it was stated.
So the fight grows harder,
as the goal looms ahead;
You will be hated by all
the world is what Christ said.
Men will love self and
they will try to make a name;
You can’t
work for Jesus without taking the blame.
Some day we will come
through the furnace of fire;
It was rough for a while
in this sin sick world of mire.
A shout goes up, these all
belong to our LORD,
From Heaven’s shore,
“Welcome home, You Kept His Word!”
We made it, we cry, we
never had a doubt;
We see him, His scars;
there rises a great shout.
It’s over; we thought it hard
down below;
Oh GOD, we’re
glad, look the Bride dressed white as snow.
Here comes the Bridegroom,
singing Amazing Grace,
Crying to us, “Come you
made reservation, here your place.
We watched you, shouted as
you fought the fight of Faith;
We knew you would make it,
fighting Heaven’s race.
It’s all over now, rest, from
race you run;
They didn’t
exclude you, that can’t be done.
GOD made you and gave you
Love in your heart;
You are here, you will be
always, and never depart."
--by
Haskell Dane, circa 1972
For we
wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places."--Eph. 6:12.
Thou therefore endure
hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth
himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath
chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries, yet
is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.--2 Tim. 2:3-5.
Think not that I am come
to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. ... And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.--Mt.
10:34-36.
Go ye therefore into the
highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. ... And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a
man which had not on a wedding garment: ... For many are called, but
few are chosen.--Mt. 22:11-14
Be not
afraid,
only believe. ... And when he was come in, he saith
unto them, Why
make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead,
but sleepeth.
And they laughed him to scorn. But
when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel,
and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being
interpreted, Damsel,
I say unto thee, arise.–Mk. 5:36-41.
He speaks, and the sound
of His voice
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing;
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing.
“Nevertheless
when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”—Luke
18:8. ~ ~“Arise,
my love, my fair one, and come away.”--- Song 2:10-13.
And as for this Minority Report; those "which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." To the excluded, excommunicated, "cast out" like our Lord Jesus, censured or otherwise disavowed; those "hidden ones", I offer these verses: Ge4:26; 49:10; Ex20:23-26; De7:7; Jg6:11-14; 1Sa2:9; Ps27:5; 56:8-12; 83:3; 84:3; 91:1; 102:7; Is4:3-6; 35:8; 51:1-2; La3:28; Eze7:22; Mt5:9-13; 10:31, 34-36; 13:33, 44; 18:20; 19:27-30; Mk6:10-11; Lk4:28-31; 6:20-23; 9:4-5; 10:11; 20:12-15; Jn6:37; 8:59; 9:22, 34-35; 14:21-24; Ac7:19-21, 58; 13:49-52; 16:37; 18:6; Ro11:2-5, 29; 1Co6:19-20; 2Co6:14-18; Ga4:28-31; Co3:1-4; 2Ti1:6-9; He13:10-13; 1Pe2:4-5; 3:18-21; 4:10-13; 1Jn5:7-10; 3Jn1:9-11; Re2:17; 3:20; 22:17-20. "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."