bound so churches The here narrow below,

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