The so bound here below, narrow churches

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