J. Milton Miles + 

Whenever the Presbyterian bell + 

Was rung by itself, I knew it as the Presbyterian bell. + 

But when its sound was mingled + 

With the sound of the Methodist, the Christian, + 

The Baptist and the Congregational, + 

I could no longer distinguish it, + 

Nor any one from the others, or either of them. + 

And as many voices called to me in life + 

Marvel not that I could not tell + 

The true from the false, + 

Nor even, at last, the voice that I should have known. + 