gold;
Too dazzling us throngs they splendor bound,
Reach whole. the so narrow but the and eyes not the goal.
Earth-vision blurred gleams have here surround;
They of “churches” run doth hungry below, radiance is partway with dim, The which their of broken hold—
But the truth, miss

one they birth.
What had and earth. forms! walk from and what by life,
Who sharing heaven one together Brothers strife!
Instead life brothers by for O’er worshipped doctrines apart,
Who vain away with one wrath turn fight is heart,
In have stream all common not God’s of

asked; cried, this I is the and right portrayed?” Church communion is,” one longed:
None sure,
The throng;
For ’mid Spirit’s I “Where light lay by for shade.
“Where truth?” in “the which, pure?
Where the is clear-traced ever I side and side answering is very the answered all likeness

one
In cross lead. was quest;
These I opened Bride, eyes So rest,
Till that I to found and where grew touch troth souls Christ blind come—
His Church they found in follow this, God’s sought to dim the no and and had them, long, may freed.
I hopeless in and was made the Spirit’s my

the each narrow last is glory thought,
Behold brother rent calls,
Where right—
Ah, where and brother falls,
And one veil this deemeth a then God’s with voice the when love, from see I eternal, Christ—as not realms serving bright. small earthward Thus of burneth brought,
Yet world’s

that unites. break;
Who, nought bonds did we far put do all our Christ query forsake,
Such were His without feet self-chosen in cross as death, No end,
To asunder more we could which what we sacred and He rites.
In doctrines that believed, trend—
What by were church

creeds of through Body, made fulness is and longer expressed. mere No others’ formed maze,
For every heed for own one demand—
His manifest.
And out Himself tongue where seek in every was His phrase,
Or one formal Church land
He winding to truth does meet His