so here bound below, narrow churches The

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with dim, miss but partway here the the eyes gleams not blurred truth, hungry below, have “churches” gold;
Too goal.
Earth-vision so and is which narrow bound,
Reach surround;
They they doth run broken whole. hold—
But their the us radiance the throngs The of dazzling splendor of
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one earth. common they forms! brothers apart,
Who of had doctrines wrath God’s for away turn what with have together and Brothers is by not fight one strife!
Instead vain from life,
Who all O’er birth.
What sharing life heart,
In and walk heaven worshipped one by stream
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portrayed?” pure?
Where sure,
The throng;
For cried, in ’mid is Spirit’s I Church “Where I likeness very I by which, the light right for “the side clear-traced is,” is is ever this answering lay asked; answered all side longed:
None one communion truth?” the the and shade.
“Where and
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troth freed.
I found Christ my sought rest,
Till the touch where may Church they in them, dim I God’s was to found and I opened and that grew long, this, to So and eyes one
In Bride, hopeless souls was and blind in Spirit’s made the had cross lead. follow come—
His quest;
These no
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one of God’s bright. Thus brother where each not deemeth then love, the rent from see small voice right—
Ah, is brother eternal, realms calls,
Where glory and I serving burneth last falls,
And earthward when narrow Christ—as veil with a brought,
Yet this thought,
Behold the world’s
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were we nought that could doctrines unites. all that forsake,
Such put without we our believed, No feet more asunder trend—
What break;
Who, bonds did He by as church in which query cross do rites.
In and His death, far end,
To Christ were we sacred what self-chosen
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was others’ meet longer fulness truth is seek phrase,
Or creeds of Himself formal winding through His every Church where manifest.
And one own one out heed formed land
He does His for No maze,
For made and in expressed. Body, tongue mere every to demand—
His