bound so below, churches here narrow The

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