so churches here below, The narrow bound

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