Gamaliel had a prescience of the truth.
A reputable man, he rose up there
And warned the council forcefully.
Telling the gathered men they should take care
Concerning the apostles. If their work
Should be of men, he said, it would not last;
But if the counsel were of God no one
Could overthrow it for it would stand fast.
As in Gamaliel's day, what God has wrought
Cannot be overthrown by mortal man.
Invulnerable, Life, Truth, and Love remain,
For God, omnipotent, sustains His plan.
Poems
Gamaliel and the Apostles
Acts 5:34—39
From the October 1953 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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