Himself, the seed of life, in man,
That thru Himself God’s Kingdom grow
And thus fulfill th’ eternal plan.
Whence many grains have been produced
To be the Kingdom’s children meet,
Thru whom God’s reign is introduced.
Sowed many tares among the wheat,
The Kingdom’s children to confuse,
And awful damage to create.
The mixing of the tares with wheat,
The Kingdom in appearance is
Abnormal and grotesquely great.
A little herb, yet good for food,
But it has changed into a “tree,”
A system of great magnitude.
A lodge of “birds” it has become:
’Tis now a place where evil men
And evil spirits make their home.
Its outward form to us reveals.
Including pagan, evil things,
As leaven mingled with the meal.
It thus has changed in outward form;
By evil things which it imbibes,
Corruption inwardly doth swarm.
As “pearl” and “treasure in the field”;
As such the Lord would us transform
That pearl and treasure be revealed.
And from the Kingdom’s great facade,
Yet in its full reality
’Tis transformed like to Christ and God.
And save us from the monstrous “tree”;
From all the “leaven” purge us now
That we may purely be of Thee.
That we as precious stones may be,
Meet for Thy house to build and in
Thy Kingdom’s full reality.