Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-11-12

11UA1, J, NUV EMBEh LIZ, 1000.
'Where art thou Adama" the Master makes demand.
Who surely knows where all his creatures dwell,
As" Ye are spies come to view the naked land"
Came from him who knew his brethren well.
For the Hepmeet freed from his prison sits,
As Joseph sat on the Egyptian throne,
When with his hungry brethren he meets,
To whom he makes himself dreadful and unknown.
Although he turns aside as Joseph did
When he saw his suffering brothers woe.
To conceal tears like those that parents shed,
Over the child whose punishment is due.
Harsh to their ears was the upbraiding voice,
Though father and brother in judgment sat,
But changed 10 their eyes was the angelic face,
Who made OF himself an help their need to meet.
This serpent beguiled me and did eat,n
Z The deceived woman thus presents her plea.
To the cruel mask that hides from sight
The face that she had risked her life TO Sec
knowledge Of the evil he had done,
Was thus presented to the Fathers eye,
And also Of the love that he had won,
That though deserted still refused to die.
Then the Law that bade man forsake his Head,
Behed the faith of her that was iorsaken,
That woman was deceived when she obeyed,
And as one betrayed into the snare was taken.
Thus the consciencestricken Judah saw the truth,
The child Of the voice still loved and sought for him;
Faith in his love had lured her soul to death,
And back 10 her through death the Spirit came;
Aswhen Canaan sinks beneath mis- Fathers curse,
The convicted Hepmeet stands before the bar,
While he who exposed Natures nakedness
Makes of himself prisoner there.
Upon the Word the Ruler lays the cross
His form shall fill the grave that wrong has made
The crawling shall execute the curse.
And knowledge from the dust shall get its bread.
The Father thus condemned himself,
By his own hand TIE parent form fced
figure of him whose remorse and grief
Gave its victim to the potters field.
And the figure OF the Christ completed,
Even to the day when the graves were rent,
And men behed the risen bodies of their dead,
Though in their blindness they discerncd it not.
St. Matthew, Chap. ~, verses 81, 81.
For the Lord would breed enmity in them,
Between the woman and her accursed dead,
Her seed henceforth should loathc the worm
Though the form of its beloved fed
And an embodiment Of Evilhath,
The deceitful serpent ever been,
Who by this same sefsacn6cing death,
Made Of himself cloud whereon the sun might shine
But man thus brought to God could frame
No reason from his knowledge of the past
He took the fruit the woman gave 10 him,
Whose answer beifays the God.like nature lost.
Upon Adams Helpmeet he lays the blame,
Nor claims the bride Of Heaven for his own,
But as s'the woman made to be with him,
Behold mans Evil nature clad again.
As when the angry Esau's cruel hate,
Was kindled against his mothers son
He spared nor shared the woman's fate,
But left her to meet the dreadful doom alone.
But likeness to Isaac, man reveals,
Who thus denies Rebekah as his wife;
Thus through fear OF death mans honor falls,
Who forsakes woman 10 preserve his life.
Twice by man the Tree of knowledge is denied,
Who is the figure the faithess Peter fills,
For the man and his wife were both afraid,
And in the hour of need their courage fails
But he who rejected God is rejected now,
And like Simeon who was in Egypt bound
Man in the grave is pinioned low,
And his dust restored 10 its native ground.
Here Israels 6rstborn sleeps with death
And the Father deplores with shame and grief
That man de6led the bed that gave him birth,
The careless victim oil doubt and unbelief.
s'Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return
The cast.of parent thus discards his child,
But justice is satisfied; its work s-done,
And as the woman's seed, man is recalled
The discarded bride shall redeem the lost,
And mans fallen nature in her arms receive,
But the word shall rend the parents grave at last
And the victory to Deaths victims give.
Thus born Of the woman man becomes
Also child of Adams flesh and bone,
And brother to the voice, whence comes
The word, that restores his lost birthrght to man.
To dust again the Parent Head shall bow,
To be bruised by the womans seed,
The voice that is ''wordlng" its own sentence now,
Was the tree OF life, and the serpent's head,
Thus with the fruits Of Discerning Light,
The younger repairs the elder natures wrong,
And were like unto the gifts that Jacob sent,
To reconcile his brother, angered long.
To woman is appointed as her Lord,
The bond that unites the earth and heaven,
Thus power upon mans helpmeet is conferred
And rule into his righteous hand is given,
Lost, but redeemed in her seed the women sinks,
Beneath the burdens Of her evil load,
And in deaths bitterness and sorrow drinks,
The cup that contains the wisdom Of her God.
And she to whom nature had been given,
Born Of patemal care and tenderness,
| Becomes as one Of Gods forsaken.
Through pain and wrong to bear her natures Cross
.'son Of my sorrow" dying woman cries,
When the Evil nature TO her arms Is borne,
| But "son Of the Right Hand" the father replies,