bound The below, churches here so narrow

E828
1
partway the run their so below, “churches” the us eyes of doth splendor whole. with goal.
Earth-vision the the which they surround;
They gold;
Too gleams hold—
But and radiance blurred bound,
Reach broken not hungry truth, here have dazzling is The throngs but narrow miss dim, of
2
God’s worshipped by wrath of and strife!
Instead fight vain life,
Who what birth.
What away life forms! and for heart,
In from turn not brothers had doctrines O’er they common by earth. together one have stream apart,
Who one with heaven one all Brothers walk is sharing
3
I which, answering the for “Where is sure,
The is this ever portrayed?” and the pure?
Where in “the I clear-traced is one ’mid the and truth?” Spirit’s asked; lay communion all I right longed:
None shade.
“Where likeness cried, by side Church answered is,” light side throng;
For very
4
freed.
I troth God’s opened may and Church that Spirit’s Christ come—
His cross Bride, to them, had and So and eyes touch follow the this, found in I was long, my souls they the I hopeless lead. grew blind sought one
In to and quest;
These in no found made rest,
Till was where dim
5
serving from brought,
Yet a brother when voice last I right—
Ah, where the not brother bright. burneth eternal, rent see world’s narrow realms earthward one of veil Christ—as with glory thought,
Behold deemeth the love, small Thus is and calls,
Where God’s then falls,
And this each
6
that end,
To all asunder forsake,
Such did church and were far doctrines were we which as feet put without that self-chosen do death, cross bonds by unites. more nought His Christ we He trend—
What what in we query break;
Who, our sacred believed, could No rites.
In
7
own made for is formed to and phrase,
Or longer others’ winding out where meet in land
He Body, through Himself one does maze,
For seek manifest.
And demand—
His one formal heed creeds No tongue His truth of was His fulness every expressed. Church every mere