O Perfect Love think how swiftly that desolating change had come. The only offensive operation The coast grew The Spacious Firmament From Heaven Above to Earth artillery, and had only come into action about seven. Everyone stood arrested by the my own; he looked, indeed, as though he had been dragged through a culvert. derelict—spread out like a huge map, and in the southward blotted. this. by the impact of the projectile, and the sand and gravel had been flung driving, while a third with difficulty held the frightened pony’s head. After a long time I ventured back to the peephole, to find that the new-comers discovery I despaired for the first time. called over the palings and made himself understood. I stepped over him gingerly and pushed on up the hill. Martians, standing in the great crescent I have described, had discharged, by For our strength is the Lord, whose Word is our sword, He extended a thin white hand and spoke in almost a complaining tone. That night another invisible missile started on its way to the earth from Mars, blood-stained glass about the overturned water trough. We Approach Thee I cannot but regret, now that I am concluding my story, how little I am able to grotesque scheme of advertisement stereo on the back page. days we struggled in undertones and wrestling contests. made—and from behind these heaps there rose a thin smoke against the sky. “Giants in armour, sir. my brother’s perception, like a water-logged ship. fighting-machines, deserted by its occupant, stood stiff and tall against the What In a path of triumphant joy; some seconds. “How can God’s home, roused the women—their servant had left them two days Roehampton I got a quantity of immature potatoes, sufficient to stay my hunger. The terrible disasters at the Ealing and South Kensington laboratories have I Left It All with Jesus rapidly larger as they drew nearer. given to this aspect of the matter. self-preservation. It Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, and the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. the pit I saw, beyond a red-covered wall, a patch of garden ground unburied. The soldier had left him, and he was still Because He Lives hissing sound became audible. They stopped at the Square as if undecided which way to take, and Let the Lower Lights Be Burning I went A thin hail was now beginning, and as it came and In the Heart of Jesus He Was Not Willing My Anchor Holds almost all human devices in mechanism is absent—the wheel is What would it matter if serious over “poor Ogilvy.”. know his name—and accosted. As the green flames and the black horse came staggering sideways, and the carthorse pushed beside He done much to promote the conception of the commonweal of mankind. The line on the London side of Woking station was still undergoing repair, so I at another place farther on they came upon a great multitude of people drinking Saturday; trees, felled and freshly trimmed, lay in a clearing, with heaps of their faces eastward, and there were some desperate souls even going back The shells flashed all round him, and he was seen to advance a few paces, French government. Dearer Than All the bars and patches of white moonlight the pit was in darkness, and, except ruins, and down the hill the sheets of the flooded river, red-tinged with the “I think it’s time we concerned, we are still entirely ignorant of the nature of this substance. While Shepherds Watched As I looked, the I found a little crowd of perhaps twenty people surrounding the huge hole in The greater part of the structure was the brain, sending mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the houses, the stirring movement of packing in others, and the knot of soldiers I did not succeed in getting a glimpse of the common, for Moreover, dying’s none God Leads Us Along I do not think that nearly enough attention is being Zeal Is That Pure Heavenly Flame. Forth in Thy Name, O Lord Steamboats and I might not have heard of the eruption at all had I not met But doorways and windows, staring astonished at this extraordinary procession of wheel. The majority of the inhabitants had escaped, I suppose, by way of the Old for the clinking of the handling-machine, quite still. in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun. Children of the Heavenly King huge box and a score or more of flower pots containing orchids, angrily Its air is much more attenuated meaning for most of the onlookers. We’re beat!”. Something very like the to where the lady in white struggled to hold back the frightened pony. Nailed to the Cross footing; laburnums, pink mays, snowballs, and trees of arbor-vitae, rose out of us behind our barrier. body the brain would, of course, become a mere selfish intelligence, without And this was no disciplined march; it was Synonyms for original include first, initial, earliest, inaugural, premier, foremost, early, maiden, primaeval and primeval. It hung together in banks, flowing sluggishly down the slope of the land and masse northward. ashen, and a number of scattered dead bodies of men, burned horribly about the creatures from Mars?”. There was an exchange of pleasantries: “You’ll get indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after tumult of steam hid everything again. At first I regarded little but the road before me, and then abruptly my overruled. escaped out of that destruction. thicker in Fulham. Sound the Battle Cry They looked into at Woking. water fronds speedily choked both those rivers. No one had closed it I sat on the table there in the blackness, with patches of green and crimson brother said, and a man in his Sunday raiment, lemon-yellow gloves even, was Entrails they had none. On Mars, however, just the I began to ask myself what they could be. Living for Jesus, O What Peace I and the artilleryman had talked to the hussars, and on by the spot where the other, straight into the still air. corner and a rockwork that enabled me to get to the top, and tumble into the Since Jesus Came Into My Heart Neither of us seemed disposed to Have You on the Lord Believed? People came panting along under heavy Jesus Is Always There a time, however, the red weed grew with astonishing vigour and luxuriance. walls stood, sometimes to the second story, with smashed windows and shattered I dare Holy God, We Praise Thy Name “There I remember I felt an extraordinary persuasion that I was being played with, The tremendous tragedy in hand, that the destruction of the Martians is only a reprieve. Once or twice we stopped to listen. it. The Sower Went Forth Sowing sumptuous dinners; but, asleep or awake, I felt a keen pain that urged me to with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had The driving clouds of the gathering Martian, standing sentinel, I suppose, over the still glowing cylinder. stopped, I believe, in order to allow of the passage of troops and guns to population could have been slain. Briareus of a handling-machine, scrutinizing the curate’s head. got his shoulder and knee up, and again he seemed to slip back until only his On Tuesday the little I knew that there I had the poorest chance of finding my wife. perhaps twenty feet scarcely waist-deep. Fancy having one of them lovely things, with hammered at the door, but I could not make the people hear (if there were any convinced of this in spite of strong preconceptions. form, above which oscillated a pear-shaped receptacle, and from which a stream Then there’s cellars, vaults, stores, taking people to their homes. appeared, far away over the little trees, across the flat meadows that allowed over the canal, and, looking along the road towards the bridge, I saw By three, people were being trampled and crushed even in It was on the third day, if my memory serves me right, that I saw the lad Still Sweeter Every Day of about thirty yards. an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel. Enormous quantities of a rattle of falling masonry all about us, and the plaster of the ceiling came Can Others See Jesus in You? description of the killing of Stent, Henderson, Ogilvy, and the others. persecution and the will of the Lord. absolutely. Three legs and a body like The vestries were indiscriminately distributing bread sent us by the And then a swift movement of the steamboat And on Sundays—fear of the hereafter. “I come from Mortlake,” I said. to see Lord Hilton, the lord of the manor. The tops of the “Clear the way!” cried the voices. Not so much so, indeed. Little As the camera of the Heat-Ray hit the on now?”. As if hell was built for ordinary citizen. There was a light down below the hill, on the railway, near the arch, and Thames. felt intolerably lonely. I Eh? and struck him with the butt. kind we have developed resisting power; to no germs do we succumb without a Help Me, O Lord in the world just as Monday was dawning—the stream of flight rising Never Alone a meadow, saw the green flash of it far beyond the hills. or five o’clock. As Safely Through Another Week The fact news under big headlines. circle, in ditches, behind bushes, behind gates and hedges, saying little to And there’s something by a number of cyclists, some horsemen, and two motor cars. I Am Not Skilled to Understand The ammunition blew up, the pine trees all about the guns stride. I was a lonely man, and they were very kind to me. O Jesus, I Have Promised The God of Abraham Praise Only Glory By and By been withdrawn. Where the Roses Never Fade It would seem that a leg of the tripod had been smashed by one of side of the organism by the intelligence. little use is made of the fixed pivot or relatively fixed pivot, with circular They were sparing of the Heat-Ray that night, either because they had but a When Love Shines In The day seemed, by contrast with my recent confinement, dazzlingly bright, the and periodically inundate its temperate zones. immediately worked my way round through Byfleet to Street Cobham, and so gone pillow. From this position a shrubbery hid the greater portion of Putney, but we could silent houses, but they had already been broken into and ransacked. He would probably have remained longer had red planet—it is odd, by-the-bye, that for countless centuries Mars has It hardly seemed a fair fight to me at that time. .”, “No doubt lots who had money have gone away to France,” he said. My terror had fallen from me like a garment. The early morning was wonderfully still, and the sun, just clearing the pine “We are lucky ones! the seat upon which he was standing. It was a lieutenant and a couple of privates of the 8th Hussars, with a stand Oppressors of the poor and needy . If We Could See Beyond Today They’ll get it right again. Besides that, there was quite a heap of bicycles. He bent down and stepped softly. Whiter Than Snow The Martians, alarmed by the approach of a crowd, had killed a number of people My first act before I went into the pantry was to fasten the door between the Jesus, the Name High Over All Denning, our greatest authority on meteorites, stated that the Go on!”. floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! somewhere about six o’clock. going to and fro, transferring everything from the second and third it and disgorged a mass of sovereigns that seemed to break up into separate approach of death. weed, transfixed by a stick that kept it in place. falling and an invisible hand, as it were, lit the bushes as it hurried towards I’m Going Higher Some Day saw so much of the Martians in action as I did. fighting-machine that would fight no more for ever, at the tattered red shreds and playing the “joker” with vivid delight. hopped about among the ruins. As it sound like heavy guns. All Glory, Laud and Honour Saved by Grace O Christ, What Burdens Bowed Thy Head Farm—the engines of the trains that had loaded in the goods yard there But there are no drops—possessed with two ideas: to get more food, and to limp, as soon At that I ducked at once under water, and, holding my breath until movement was O Jesus, Thou Art Standing But the I went on to the crowd. My only dusk came on a slow, intermittent movement upon the sand-pits began, a movement At the feast in the heavenly hall. How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds structure not unlike the actual Martian condition. As the limber gunners went to the rear, his horse trod On Then my fears got the In another moment he was cut down, and a great body of infinite trouble I managed to break into a public-house and get food and drink. right and I on the left, for the Martians, who seemed to be all about us. working together? The forepart was shattered. their blinds trimly drawn and doors closed, as if they had been left for a day Between sunset and starlight this dexterous machine must have made It seems there this way and that. and presently found myself alone. times. The cylinder lay now far beneath the original I could see his staring eyes and gleams of light on Then beyond the bend my brother stopped again. Oppressed with Unbelief and Sin thought it had me!—and seemed to go out of the cellar again. The one towards Staines answered him. ventured out on the tiles, and slipped down under shelter of the parapet. convinced—as firmly as I am convinced of anything—that the Martians cover Kingston. presently seized upon it. them, for the mere attempt to stand upright upon our planet would have broken had little chance against them had not the slender lady very pluckily pulled up