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THE LORD’S SUPPER 21
Ruling them as his own household,—forgiving in turn
and chastising,
That is of human life a picture, as Scripture has taught
us.
Blessed are the pure before God! Upon purity and upon
virtue
Resteth the Christian Faith; she herself from on high is
descended.
Strong as a man and pure as a child, is the sum of the
doctrine,
Which the Godlike delivered, and on the cross suffered
and died for.
O! as ye wander this day from childhood’s sacred asylum
Downward and ever downward, and deeper in Age’s chill
valley,
O! how soon will ye come,—too soon!—and long to turn
backward
Up to its hill-tops again, to the sun-illumined, where
Judgment
Stood like a father before you, and Pardon, clad like a
mother,
Gave you her hand to kiss, and the loving heart was
forgiven,
Life was a play and your hands grasped after the roses of
heaven!
Seventy years have I lived already; the father eternal
Gave to me gladness and care; but the loveliest hours of
existence,
When I have steadfastly gazed in their eyes, I have
instantly known them,
Known them all, all again;—they were my childhood’s
acquaintance.
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