...fate, From opportunity's extended hand, When the great clock of destiny strikes Now ! MAKY A. TOWKSKBD. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Trnth with Falschood, for the good or evil side. LQWEIA. What is opportunity to a man who can't use...

...suspects it is. And he is a little bit admiring of it, but not quite involved. Perhaps you would say, "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, in the strife twixt truth and falsehood, for the good or evil side. Then it is the brave man chooses while the coward...

...the chaplain of the US Senate is unknown. Billy Graham, however, quoted James Russell Lowell's words, "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide." In his diary Bush noted that Graham "offers his help . . . talks about Saddam Hussein being the anti-Christ...

...October 20, 1944, and October 29, 1947. 96. This scene uses the first and last verses of the hymn: Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to...God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, 'twixt that darkness and that light. Though the cause of evil prosper,...

...Lowell's lyrics pointedly admonish the same theme in "Once to Every Man and Nation": Once to ev'ry man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the...falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, off 'ring each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that...

...that the ultimate victory of the right depends for now upon the courageous witness of a prophetic few. Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide...of truth with falsehood, For the good or evil side. . . . Then it is the brave man chooses, While the coward stands aside Till the multitude make virtue...

...Lowell (1819-91) is inserted into the story as Woosnam challenged youth to remain loyal to Christ: Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide,...of Truth with Falsehood, For the good or evil side; Then it is the brave man chooses While the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, Till...

...experience this at the end? The words of a beloved old hymn suddenly burst into his consciousness: Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide In the strife of truth with fahehood, for the good or evil side. Though the cause of evil prosper, yet 'tis truth alone is strong,...

...rhetoric of freedom, free choice — as James Russell Lowell put it: Once to ev'ry man and nation Conies the moment to decide In the strife of truth with falsehood, For the good or evil side.32 Notably, American Roman Catholics, who retain infant baptism rather than requiring corporeal...

...Scott and Marcia, the camera returns to Howard and Shelly as the congregation sings the next line, "in the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side." That Shelly decides to leave the church as her family and neighbors sing of good and evil impresses...