<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421620" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lodestone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As needles point towards the pole,<br>When touched by the magnetic stone;<br>So faith in Jesus, gives the soul<br>A tendency before unknown. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Till then, by blinded passions led,<br>In search of fancied good we range;<br>The paths of disappointment tread,<br>To nothing fixed, but love of change. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when the Holy Ghost imparts<br>A knowledge of the Saviour's love;<br>Our wand'ring, weary, restless hearts,<br>Are fixed at once, no more to move. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now a new principle takes place,<br>Which guides and animates the will;<br>This love, another name for grace,<br>Constrains to good, and bars from ill. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By love's sure light we soon perceive<br>Our noblest bliss, and proper end;<br>And gladly every idol leave,<br>To love and serve our Lord and Friend. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus borne along by faith and hope,<br>We feel the Saviour's words are true;<br>And I, if I be lifted up,<br>Will draw the sinner upward too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421620" data-title="The Lodestone de John Newton" data-description="As needles point towards the pole, When touched by the magnetic stone; So faith in Jesus, gives the soul A tendency before unknown. 'Till then, by blinded passions led, In search of fancied good we range; The paths of disappointment tread, To no..."></div> </div> </div>

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