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Rh Chance and change are busy ever, &emsp;Man decays and ages move; But His mercy waneth never, — &emsp; is Wisdom, is Love. Now if it be true that power never waneth, how can it be also true that chance and change are universal factors, — that man decays? Many ordinary Christians protest against this stanza of Bowring's, and its sentiment is foreign to Christian Science. If be changeless goodness, as sings another line of this hymn, what place has chance in the divine economy? Nay, there is in naught fantastic. All is real, all is serious. The phantasmagoria is a product of human dreams.