narrow so The bound churches here below,

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