Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-11-05

/ That when man should the lore Of Evil learn,
He might receive knowledge Of the Good.
Bas this vas also death, for paternal love
Vas longing to embrace its absent child,
And ~ the good that filed the House shove,
Gould not render the parent reconciled.
Thus the dark, cold bosom of the ground
Brought forth the knowledge Of Evil and of Good
And II was here that Jacobs wives were found,
Who figure the breath of the creating God.
Though man was but an armlet Of the sea,
As compared with his creating Head,
Who should the parent its nourishment deny,
Was empty as some deserted rivers bed
Ana was thus that the parent Earth,
Gave the daughters that her bosom bore,
To the form Of dust in which the Makers breath
Made of himself slave for Wlsdom's hire
Thus the FIRST Angel, patient and pure
Bowed beneath the burdens Wisdom laid on him.
But the reproach Of Ephesus he bore,
In that his first love was departed from.
Vainly the parent stood by the Dividing Gate,
For man had lost his knowledge the Good,
Till the wearied Father could not wait,
And came Himself to seek the mans abode
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When "Godly words" reveal the Master near.
And another son is born to Jacobs House,
Fraught with Heavenly promise for his ear.
Here, Abraham gives battle to the Kings.
And rescues his nephew from the lost
And when back from death his brother brings,
AS the Priest of an Eternal hire is blest
Thus the alter of seli-sacritice is reared,
On which the priest provides Of himself lamb
And in this voice lis first victim first appeared,
Who is the figure Of Him that is to come"
For man with his evil nature was alone,
When the Maker found his wandering child,
And made of Himself an Helpmeet for his own,
BY whose neglect, paternal love was chilled.
For it was Adam named the fowl and brute,
And restored to the wisdom Of his Head
But the soul of man refused to mate,
With Him who was the spirit OF the Good.
His feet still in the paths Of Evil keep,
Nor to the wisdom of the voice gave heed,
Till his hardened soul was left to Sleep
As he who grieves the spirit of his God.
Paternal love could not penetrate the night.
And give to knowledge of the Good,
And sadly the angelic bearer ofthe Light,
Stood by the wretched body of its dead.
II was the Lord who caused this sleep to fall
Upon the helpless, hesh-bound soul Of man,
When from his dark, wronged nature, all
That could love or be loved from life was gone
And God of Smyma's poverty is judge,
Who does not condemn the Jew that casts him off,
He knows the heart that to its God is ege,
And condemns careessness, but ptes unbeief;
AS when Jacobs helpessness enkindes WRATH
Against the bride that at first he sought
Whose patient love approaches death,
Because life gives offspring the light she brought
But Jacob did not know that Rachel went to God
Toobtain the life her soul desired,
That ofreproach she took advice instead,
And thus of the Heavenly tree conc celved,
Aud Of that which taken from mans side,
The Lord now makes an help for Adams need;
And the reproach from mans nature was removed
When the Helpmeet born, mans profered aid.
For Of Himself, the Father makes son,
To the unforgotten nature Of the Good;
And now a partner with her in flesh and bone,
The voice itself declares whose offspring is the word
1t is Adam who procaims the woman's origin,
And the reasons that gave her nature name,
While the mysterious that dates their union,
Declares ere this that they were not the samc
But the Father did not know that woman stole
The light that for mans nature designed,
And by her Faith received the words that fell,
And thus Of the creating voice conceived.
For she had but partaken Of the crumbs,
That were scattered from her husbands feast,
Though Of that spark Living Light becomes,
And kingdom was built on what was counted lost.
The parent SOUL an offspring of the voice,
Was thus created being Of the dust,
By Adam forsaking his forbidden House,
A1d dwelling where he was taken from at first.
Anda root Of the offspring Of the dust
Was engrafted with the Heavenly vine,
Who came to be helpmeet for the lost
And now fills the figures Of the womans son
Thus the voice of the dying Jacob blessed
Him who was divided from his brethren;
"The blessings of thy Father have prevailed,
Above those that my progenitors have given'
"To the utmost bound Of the Everlasting Hills,
Their benefits shall rest on Joseph's head;"
"And on its crown" even the voice that fills
His silver cup with the discerning word.
Woman was herselfa child Of dust,
While man was born of spiritual sire,
But while he was in the maze of Evil lost,
The Voice, mans own creating head, was born to her
And the maternal parent Of the man
Was the knowledge that the Evil nature bore.
While the mother who for Adam bears son,
Was the light Of all that was holy, good and pure
''No beast of the field that God had made"
Waswise as ne who made an helpmeet of himself,
And brought % man knowledge of the Good,
Which was the secret of Eternal Life
Meanwhile the Law gives promise Of another son,
And 1t Is iofetod by the creating voice,
That the man shall yet forsake his own.
And become an offspring of the woman,s house.
Thus earth IS welded TO its kindred Heaven:
For in Adam the spirit and the dust unite.