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The Church

The Church Went Walking With The World

Country Church

The Church and the world walked far apart on the changing shores of time,

The world was singing a giddy tune, the Church a hymn sublime;

"Come, give me your hand,"said the merry world."and walk with me this way.

" But the good Church hid her snowy hands and solomnly answered,"Nay,

I will not give you my hand at all, and I will not walk with you,

your ways are the ways that lead to death; and your words are all untrue."

"Nay, walk with me but a little space," said the world with a timely air;

"the road I walk is a pleasant road' and the sun shines always there;

your path is thorny, rough and rude, but mine is broad and plain.

My way is paved with flowers and dews, and yours with tears and pain.

The sky to me is always blue, no want no toil I know;

The sky above you is always dark and your lot is a lot of woe.

There is room enough for you and me to travel side by side."

Half shyly, the church approached the world and gave him her hands of snow

and the old world grasped it and walked away, saying in accents low,

"Your dress is too simple to please my taste, I will give you pearls to wear,

Rich velvets, and silks for your graceful form, and diamonds to deck your hair."

The Church looked down at her plain white robe and then at the dazzling world,

and blushed as she saw his handsome lips with a smile contemptuous curled.

"I will change my dress for a costlier one" said the Church with a smile of grace;

then her pure white garments drifted away, and the world gave in their place,

Beautiful satins and shinning silks, Roses and gems and costly pearls;

While over her forehead her bright hair fell, crisped in a thousand curls.

"Your house is too plain," said the proud old world,"I'll build you one like mine,

with walls of marble and towers of gold, and furniture ever so fine."

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So he built her a costly and beautiful house, most splendid it was to behold;

Her sons and her beautiful daughters dwelt there, gleaming in purple and gold.

Rich fairs and shows in the halls were held, and the world and his children were there.

Laughter and music and feasts were heard in the place that was meant for prayer.

There were cushioned seats for the rich and the gay, to sit in their pomp and pride.

But the poor who were clad in shabby array, sat meekly down outside.

"You give too much to the poor," said the world, "Far more than you ought to do;"

"If they are in need of shelter and food, why need it trouble you?"

"Go, take your money and buy rich robes, buy horses and carriages fine;

buy pearls and jewels, and dainty food, buy the rarest and costliest wine."

"My children, they dote on all these things and if you their love would win;

You must do as they do and walk in the ways that they are walking in."

So the poor were turned from her door in scorn, and she heard not the orphans cry,

But she drew her beautiful robes aside as the widows went weeping by.

Then sons of the world and the sons of the church walked closely, hand and heart,

And only the Master who knoweth all, could tell the two apart.

Then the Church sat down at her ease and said,"I am rich and my goods increase.

I have need of nothing or ought to do, but to laugh and dance and feast."

The sly world heard and he laughed in his sleeve, and mockingly said aside,

"The Church is fallen, the beautiful Church and her shame is her boasts and her pride."

Then the Angel drew near to the mercy seat, and whispered in sighs her name,

Then the loud anthems of rapture were hushed and heads were covered in shame.

And a voice was heard at last by the Church, from Him who sits on the throne;

"I know thy works, and how thou hast said, "I am rich," and hast not known,

that thou art naked, poor and blind and wretched before my face,

Therefore from my presence cast I thee out,

and blot thy name from it's place"

By..Matilda C. Edwards

 

 

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