so narrow bound below, churches here The

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