Frank

Thanks, Lin, for welcoming me into the club! Is the motto still, “We must enter the Kingdom of God with great difficulty, and everyone who seeks to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution,” which was given by Paul, the founder of our club? If so, then count me in; absolutely! And may I suggest the following as our club song:

GIVE ME THE WINGS OF FAITH TO RISE, by Issac Watts

Give me the wings of faith to rise
within the veil, and see
the saints above, how great their joys,
how bright their glories be.

Once they were mourning here below,
and wet their couch with tears;
they wrestled hard, as we do now,
with sins, and doubts, and fears.

I asked them whence their victory came;
they, with united breath,
ascribed their conquest to the Lamb,
their triumph to his death.

They marked the footsteps he trod;
his zeal inspired their breast;
and following their incarnate God,
possessed the promised rest.

Our glorious Lord claims our praise
for his own pattern given;
while the long cloud of witnesses
show us the same path to heaven.