Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-26


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BY Dr. James B. Clayton
s1HE Book sublime transmitted ages through
Surviving creeds imagnatlons vain.
u That Book whose shadows purer light mparts
Than all the garsh books OF hayward man
Mans Book because it's Gods, Gods for it's mans
Rejecting truth which and priest and king,
Royal OF soul and filled with Heavens light
Which shone upon them they searched for God
And wrote their quest OF hope for human good
Declares that Man is made in form of God
But little lower than the gods and crowned
With honor and with power to reign with God
Der all the works OF Unseen Hands which wrought
Our chaos into shape.
How high is Man,
God the earth though formed OF earths poor dust
His thought outspeeds the light, outsoars the stars
To utmost reaches of imagined space
Where worlds hang the fngerps
OF omnpresent might. He stretches time
Beyond mortality to timeess God
Without beginning. count OF days end
Thus weds himself to Deity and Heaven.
\ trinity in one, yet not in parts
As God is Three-in-one, the Father Son.
And Spirit pure not severed God, but thoughts
OF His trne unity with man SO flesh
And soul and spirit of mankind relates
Him to the earth, to all mankind, and God
In undivided life.
His bodv frail-
He knows Frame remembers dust,
Yet wondrous dust in human form divine
\ body made from earth, the earth to rule
In harvest field and deserts claimed from waste
To every field and ri, the air and sun
To Nature all Man his life, yet rules,
aims ms beng ey his rule houg a Death feet
Fen Death at last shall fall Till then his flesh
Is intrument OF will. the tent of soul,
And Temple of the Most High God
His soul,
The bond Of human kind, relates his life
To every kindred. tribe and earth
Tn democratic brotherhood of blood
OF toll and pain Of loss and gain, in
OF face by which he earns his bread thus
With all humanity.
His spirit Tree
Owns sonshp to his God. the vital spark"
OF flaming love. whose burning heat first gave
His dust its sacred warmth, and thus partakes =
Of Deity its flames maintained by Truth
Whose understanding is the Spirits gift
That dvvclls in him. whose inspiration pure
Gives him new life though burning low in doubt
And sin renewed by grace OF hardening Love;
To rule that spirit gives him best
And greatness more than conquerors in
Acclaim. Returning to its author God,
Transformed by discipline and Death, alone
1t passes twixt earth and Heaven
Surviving shudderng shock of Death to reign
Midst spirits of Just redeemed and thus
Fitted for role and place.
Thus speaks that Book
Against such lineage
And destiny Man stoops SIM betrays
His calling, sonship, heritage divine
And the image Of his God in him.
The Son of God fashioned in form man.
Whose Gospel Of the Fatherhood of God
The brotherhood Of Man. the worth of life.
Exalts the faith and character of Man
Lifts up the until its gathered hopes
Reach out for that unseen but certain goal
Which God ordained before the morning Stars
Swung in their paths, before the gaze of Man
Had fixed their place guessed their origin.
Through ages Of development till now,
Through evils thick and many wrongs and woes,
Through centuries OF waiting for the light
On Natures plan and Gods design Gods Man
Mans God, have labored ceascss ON.
Complete,
As Gods complete Man bound to earth and Man
And God, within himself while part of all -.
Is part entire, unit all alone
And separate his personality;