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 108. Uzzah and Obed-Edom  THE ark of God has hidden strength;  Who reverence or profane, They, or their seed, shall find at length  The penalty or gain.  While as a sojourner it sought  Of old its destined place, A blessing on the home it brought  Of one who did it grace.  But there was one, outstripping all  The holy-vestured band, Who laid on it, to save its fall,  A rude corrective hand.  Read, who the Church would cleanse, and mark  How stern the warning runs; There are two ways to aid her ark  As patrons, and as sons.

   At Sea .  June 24, 1833.