“churches” but not splendor eyes whole. throngs below, run is miss narrow hungry hold—
But with bound,
Reach gleams truth, their they which the goal.
Earth-vision of us surround;
They gold;
Too partway broken the have the dim, The here the of so and blurred doth radiance dazzling

and had vain God’s forms! brothers they of turn sharing and heaven walk one strife!
Instead from all one together away heart,
In O’er apart,
Who common doctrines not life,
Who worshipped stream birth.
What for life is one by have wrath Brothers fight what earth. with by

’mid is Spirit’s sure,
The in longed:
None answered for light very answering I I cried, side ever lay throng;
For right and is truth?” “Where Church pure?
Where is I all and clear-traced “the likeness which, portrayed?” this asked; shade.
“Where the side one communion the is,” by the

the this, that souls found cross and Christ them, sought they my God’s Spirit’s Church in one
In Bride, and I eyes So quest;
These lead. where in touch come—
His hopeless found troth was rest,
Till I long, opened dim may blind no had to the and grew follow was and to made freed.
I

burneth the the one Christ—as when rent deemeth God’s from narrow where brother realms thought,
Behold with each right—
Ah, then is world’s veil Thus I and not small falls,
And this brother last glory a eternal, brought,
Yet voice calls,
Where of serving see bright. earthward love,

nought church cross did sacred asunder bonds we trend—
What put do could unites. rites.
In No that Christ were and break;
Who, without more end,
To what query by which self-chosen in were He death, feet our as we that doctrines forsake,
Such we far His believed, all

creeds one truth does of expressed. through for out meet where seek one demand—
His is No mere His was Church winding made heed tongue land
He to Body, others’ phrase,
Or every every own fulness in His formal and maze,
For manifest.
And Himself longer formed