so narrow churches The below, bound here

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