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

Who offspring Of the cherished word.
With the knowledge lost that should be born with him,
Who is to sway the sceptre of the gods,
Man as babe in wisdom to his throne has come
Ignorant of its nature and its needs
And dust must furnish the Light again
With which 10 dye the garments Of her Lord,
That he may be fitted as one to reign
Before the spirit and the dust divide.
But when her appointed work is done,
She deserted tenement is made,
Another victim by the sword is slain,
Where snare is by the divider laid.
And woman deceived by the serpents tale,
Is but fastening her natures doom,
When she must Life deserted body fail,
And forever bid farewell to him.
As slain behold the woman fall
A martyr to her knowledge Of the Good,
Thus it is that Justice finds them ALL
And beneath Adams alter both are laid.
Here Jacob meets the Heavenly host,
The Tree on which the Light of knowledge dwell;
Where Death is still standing at his post,
To preserve Natures dividing wall,
Mahunem, two hosts camps.
Here he gains his victory over Death,
And face to face behplds the features of his God,
And wins blessing though clad in wrath
To the wretched life that still is spared.
The Tree yields to him its discerning fruit,
And beneath the Angels touch shrunk away
'sAnd the children of Israel do not eat
OF the Tree the sinew that shrunken to this day.
Though Jacob was declared Prince of God,
Only the Light was given to his eye,
But when he sought for his Paernal Head,
The empty robe revealed the Missing Tree.
Because man was unprepared his God to meet,
The Makers plan was crippled at this point,
The work begun remaining incomplete,
While IN figure Jacobs thigh is out Of joint.
1t in mercy that the spirit in its nakednesS,
Was not exposed to the Masters eye,
And Life spared to repair its dress,
And thus prepare TO meet its God on high.
Where Heaven rebuilt beyond the vail
And clad in the gladness taken from the dust,
That when man should refill his measure full,
His soul might find place prepared for rest.
Thus woman upon Wisdoms pathway waits,
To robe her spotess spirit for thesky,
As when Jacob on his homeward journey halts,
And stands in figure halting on his thigh.
Their quckened spirits may no longer sleep,
But man returns to his infancy again,
And in the garden with its blighted crop,
Repeats his pilgrimage through toll and pain.
Here man weds the Evil bride again,
And his lost knowledge is restored,
While woman, yoked with Evil, and cast down,
Still listens for the voice she loved.
The parent like the aged Jacob mourns
AS dead, the Voice who made of Himself son,
While pregnant with her younger born she groans,
Beneath the burdens, and the wrongs of man.
His children by their acts rehearse their birth,
Recalling to him his forgotten past,
But the Records that are thus recalled from death
In figures that are dark their colors cast.
In righteous ness like linen clean and white,
The sons of Wisdom are by the Word arrayed,
Their colors quickly fade when in the light
The garments that convey the truth are laid.
Ii is thus that Shem and Japheth backwardgo
Whose shoulders bear raimen to their fathers form,
The Voice is silent till their souls in Wisdom grow,
And are thus fitted to commune with him.
| In a fiery lake by Wisdom hemred,
The fugitives from death are confined,
Who cannot go back, neither ascend,
Thus doth Discerning Light her letters bind.
A murdered parent haunts their dreams.
Whose vengeance fills their waking hours with dread,
| Thus conviction to the creature comes,
Whose spirit is awakened from the dead.
/ A foul carcass hat defes Heather Land,
| Thus of their father the sons of Jacob make,
| When his past history presents 10 mind,
How blindness of his life has made wreck.
| But through humility the crown is won,
And victor, Jacob marches home,
| While with the nations gaze upon
| The heir into his possessions come.
| The knowledge of the Good did not in darkness die
Nor did the gloom of death dissolve its Holy light,
Faith in the Hepmeets promise lit her cherries sky,
And his unforgotten love illumed her Night.
| She knew that Darkness must have its reign,
But that to learn its nature was not death,
And waited patiently the rising of the sun,
| That should drive Deaths shadow from the earth,
| AT length the appointed hour arrives,
When the heir of promise should be weaned,
And into his hand the Father gives
The treasures for him from Eternity designed.
Thus it was that silence reigned in Heaven;
Nature for half an hour remaining still,
After the seventh seal was broken
Ere startled by his Makers call.
l Ag,in the Voice Of his Master calls to man,
To which he answers now in trembling fear,
When the trial in Heavens Court began
With Judgment and sentence rendered there.
Did the quakng earth and darkened heaven,
Awake in man consciousness of wrong7
L Who remembered him he had forsaken,
And from remorse his terror sprang2
For the silence of the grave was broken.
When the Tree cast its untnely fruit,
But he who despsed when love had spoken,
Now hears voice to fear and trembe at.