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THE LORD’S SUPPER 19
This is moreover the faith whereunto I baptized you, while
still ye
Lay on your mothers’ breasts, and nearer the portals of
heaven.
Slumbering received you then the Holy Church in its
bosom;
Wakened from sleep are ye now, and the light in its
radiant splendor
Rains from the heaven downward;—to-day on the
threshold of childhood
Kindly she frees you again, to examine and make your
election,
For she knows naught of compulsion, only conviction
de-sireth.
This is the hour of your trial, the turning-point of
existence,
Seed for the coming days; without revocation departeth
Now from your lips the confession. Bethink ye, before
ye make answer!
Think not, O think not with guile to deceive the
questioning Teacher.
Sharp is his eye to-day, and a curse ever rests upon
falsehood.
Enter not with a lie on Life’s journey; the multitude hears
you,
Brothers and sisters and parents, what dear upon earth is
and holy
Standeth before your sight as a witness; the Judge
everlasting
Looks from the sun down upon you, and angels in waiting
beside him
Grave your con fession i n letters of fire, upon tablets eternal.
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