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

The light that first of darkness taken from,
Unless he casts his paternal natures of,
1t is the reyengeful voice of Sarah,
Driving her handmaid from the House of Life
Because the light was not hoAored by an eye
That was blinded by doubt and unbelief.
The offspring Of tie voice bid man become as they
| Who have themselves their parent tree forsaken,
| Angry that the Helpmeet on his bosom lay,
Ere she bride into mis- arms was taken.
Who knew not she promised wife,
Who was to her husband long denied,
Till man became stranger to the life,
| That was suited to the nature Of his bride.
Thus the Firstborn Of the Makers breath,
Was made to abdcate his Fathers throne,
Who knew not that the beauty of the Womans house
Was but the departed glory Of his own.
Beneath this altar the first victims lie,
Who were slain by the Dvlder's sword,
And to Heaven justly for vengeance cry
On him by whom the subtitle snare was laid.
But he who takes the sword by it shall fall:
AS these were slain, so shall their slayer be,
But these shall wait till Justice gathers all,
Who shall fall victims of the Forbidden tree.
Discerning wisdom was the priceless gift,
That the prophetic voice had promised man,
Who through unbeief rejected it,
And left his birthright to the younger son.
Man was the offspring Of his Makers breath;
But this the noblest Of his Fathers house,
Had lost the knowledge Of his birth,
And that he was offspring of the voice.
And when he cast his parent nature off,
He sold it for the knowledge of the Good,
That he had lost through delay and unbclief,
And could not have again restored,
The Law was also taken in this snare,
For Judah had compromised with Death,
And the children that the rod would spare,
Were those he found her pregnant with
All praise is due the Angel of Judahs line,
whose works at last are more than at the first,
But he who writes to Thyatra points his pen,
AT her whose shade Judah's house is cast,
Fort obtain the light, man sleeps with Death,
In obedience to his knowledge Of the Good,
And died offspring of the Makers breath,
BY thus forsaking this paternal Head.
And the arm OF life was swallowed IN the sea-
While discerning Light discards her maid,
And leaves their wronged deserted dust to die
The form that for which the Makers breath was made
The spirit of him who rejects the Good
And OF him who rejects the bad are brethren;
Both natures sprang from the same God
And Evil is but Wisdoms elder son;
And the Father loved the elder BEST
The one the staff discerning Light was built upon,
Even as Isaac loved Esau the most,
Because he did eat Of his sons venison"
The breach in nature thus was closed
The Evil and the Good were Joined as one
And man as hire for him he sold received
The wealth of dust and spirit for his own.
1t was the Law who bade cast his Head away
Who now as the woman welds the sword,
And would thus knowledge of the Evil buy
"A Rachel for Reubens mandrakes sells her Lord
10 gain the light of life man sold his God
And gave his house into the woman's hand.
Who to gain the light of Evil sold the Good
And DEATH became sole monarch of the land.
But few names in Sardis yet remain,
Whose garments unde6led by hire,
And their robes are yet without stain
oan lie who knows the heart and what its motives are
The hand OF Evil loosened on the Earth
Chilling winds and biting frosts are stayed,
lhe laborer no longer fought with Death,
Though the fat Of the land became his bread.
Still little strength and Heavenly faith
Is in the church Of Philadelphia found,
Though fast falling into the hands of death,
Whose arms are around her victim wound
Thus was enthroned in nature,
And as wife conceas her light from view,
From present death her innocence protects her
Who is the bride OF Good and Evil too.
And OF the Tree that for man designed
The woman thus obtained the fruit,
Thus the Good was to the Evil joined
Or added to man his natures need to meet
But as Evil andGood s'as cold and hot"
The light of the Laodceans cannot stand
Their souls are full, they hunger not"
And the Tree is neglected in the land.
This was Eden the home Of innocence,
Where care nor want nor pain were known,
But the price man paid an offense,
And Tor the broken Covenant he must atone
Lo; Jacob for the Lambs of Laban's flock.
Now disregards the call Of his Fathers God,
Till the day is done, and the night grows dark
Before he starts upon his homeward road
nus ne who should surely come while it Vas day,
Waited till the brightness Of its hight was gone,
And the knowledge lost by this delay,
Was the only robe that man could call his own
For mans knowledge on its parent nature leant,
He could forget the Evil, who forgot the Good
Except he died to him who could forget,
Ere his natures light had from his spirit fed
Here the forsaken Dust is seen to meet
And with his fleeing children holds commune,
While as Evil nor Good, in love Nor hate,
Each relates the wrong the other had done.
Thus from nature the light Of Good and Evil fades,
And each heaps up witness to its death,
And save for the images that Rachel hides,
staress night obscures the glory Of the Earth
We're they figures Of the Holy Book,