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