Cantique : God to come has Son sow The of

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th’ Son thru Kingdom fulfill has Himself in of the life, God seed come to thus grow
And plan. man,
That The of sow
Himself, God’s eternal

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whom is wheat
Whence of was grains He the reign be been God’s meet,
Thru produced
To only have Kingdom’s children introduced. the grain many

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tares enemy many of Satan, to confuse,
And Kingdom’s awful children among the wheat,
The to God,
Sowed But create. damage

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the this mixing of with grotesquely is
Abnormal great. wheat,
The tares appearance in by ’Tis of and Kingdom work his,
The subtle

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little “tree,”
A magnitude. system food,
But should herb, mustard a into changed good yet be,
A as it of for has The Kingdom great

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lodge of men
And evil spirits evil become:
’Tis now it “birds” a for home. where food,
A good place Instead of has make their being

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the us leaven mingled the pagan, great meal. to evil world
Its A outward with form things,
As reveals.
Including religion of

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has doth which things of system outward imbibes,
Corruption form;
By swarm. inwardly thus it A evil the such,
It in world changed as

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us would the something hidden transform
That in and treasure “pearl” Lord pearl seek,
As and field”;
As “treasure revealed. the But God be such doth

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its vast full and the hidden from ’Tis Christendom
And Kingdom’s transformed in like facade,
Yet reality
’Tis from God. great to Christ

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Thee. purely separate from may the purge monstrous “leaven” of us save us the the “tree”;
From us be “tares,”
And all from we Lord, now
That

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precious in
Thy souls
That May our life transform Thy house and Kingdom’s be,
Meet full build in may as reality. to stones Thou for we

God to come has Son sow The of