The jest, the laugh, the dance, the music tones-
And all delights for which the senses lust;
While in the Watch tower sackcloth, and the Crust,
And bitter Persecution near at hand,

The gibbet, and the cross, arena sand

With Christians huddling from the wild beast's tooth;
Surely the heart and spirit were not mute,

So lack of waiting Grace cried out to be
Feasted and Honored-Guests of Royalty.

And Satan taught The Church to become wise,
Began THE WORD to spiritualize—

The Great Hope of The Church was surely vain-
THE CHRIST Would ne'er return for earthly reign!
The thought abhorrent that THE CHRIST should be
Dwelling amid a flesh Humanity-

The Fathers were mistaken in their claims,
The Teaching of The Ancient Word but aims
To give a spirit picture what would be
When world was won to Christianity-
Gross were the visions of an earthly reign

THE CHRIST Should Rule in heart, in act, in brain,
Rule in The Church-All ancient prophecy
Spoke of the Church-of Glories yet to be.
The Jew had forfeited forever more

His land, his promises, his ancient weal

THE CHRIST would never to Jew such restore.
Thus did the Church deliberately steal
The Jewish Blessings-said, the Time had come
When Christian People be no longer dumb,
But dare to claim for CHRIST what was His own

The splendor of The World-a World Wide throne!
Too long they had been cheated of their Right-
Now they should rise up in the Christly might,
For surely CHRIST in Constantine had spoken,
The Blazing Cross in sky the Holy token-
That over all The World the Royal Words:
"The Kingdoms of The World are now The Lord's!"

So Lucifer and all his hosts marched in
The temples of the Church, to rule base men,
Who cried: "Behold Millennium Days have come!"

So the true followers of CHRIST stood dumb,

True Conquests of The Church were brought to naught, CHRIST'S Creeds were mingled with base heathen thought,

So they who loved THE CHRIST must stand aside.

Once more in Wilderness with CHRIST abide.

Ah, where wert thou through all these lurid days?
Surely thine heart successful in such ways
As led the Christian heart and brain astray,
Whether in rabble, or in princely way,
Thy cunning surely equal to thy task;
Nor did you aught of indolence then ask,
Surely stood victor in each enterprise,
Perchance, had won foul splendor in the eyes
Of Captain, Prince, and even Lucifer,
Some sterling honor did on thee confer!

But Satan raised up Teachers that in sooth
Mingle Greek Wisdom with the Gospel Truth

When Origen and such false Teachers taught
Wisdom of Hell in simple Christian thought-
Then spiritualizing was the rage

And every narrative on Bible page

Had mystic sense-as nothing truly real,
All things were spiritual and Ideal,

'Til simplest message in God's Word abstruse
And for the Common People little use.

And quickly spreading from such damned abuse
The Bible Truth contorted as each man
Conceived that what ought to have been GOD's plan.
Hope of the Early Church was soon forgot
Till now professing church will have it not-
Return of CHRIST! they scorn it, and deride,
And in Satanic insolence and pride-

Preach a Half Gospel-give no hope to man
That CHRIST is pledged to vast Redemptive Plan,
That Human Flesh is to HIM dear as soul,
And to Redeem Flesh gave His life as toll,
And that The Earth is precious to His sight,
That as He has Redeemed-so shall His might
Cleanse Soul, and Flesh, and beautify the earth,
To be a place of Peace and joy and mirth.

Oh, why will ministers then close their eyesCannot they see the multitudes despise Holding their saving of the soul a thing Of little worth besides Life's sufferingWhile Precious Truth the tale of Sin ForgivenAnd sweet to dream of rapturous far-off Heaven.

Hunger stands gaunt o'er half the Human Race
Shaking its famine fingers in their face-
Millions not knowing where tomorrow's bread-
Gaunt childhood on gaunt mothers' breast unfed—
One-half the world shivers in scanty dress-
Three-fourths of all the world no homes possess-
Rent payers-aye, never once home dwellers-
In Hovels, Garrets and chill damp cellars-
Live hand to mouth-with never chance to save
For future wants-nor money for a grave-
A round of weary toil for bit and sup
To aged lips held misery's full cup-

Like beasts of Burden-narrow is their scope
Without a single, solitary hope

Tomorrow will be better than today-
While sin's temptations openly display
Some antidote to drive an hour or two away
The fretting and the blackness of despair-
The coarser pleasures-brothel and vile drink-
Strong is the chain and sin joins link to link
Until the battered form slips over brink
To that fell place of which we may not think!
No use to blind one's eyes, for all may see
O'er all Humanity a restless sea
Of surging, heaving, tossing misery-
Pain hath electric needles and she stands
With shafts of torture in her busy hands
Sending her biting arrows to all lands-
Laughter is swift-but grief is swifter still-

Smiles sweet and soft-but Tears have stronger will-
Ah, scarce a merry song but ends with wail-
And scarce a Right but Wrong stands to prevail.

Base Demon, surely but thy quest shall win-
In early Christian years didst thou begin
Thy work of cunning that would lead to this-
At first 'twere little thing to be amiss

On literal meaning on the Blessed Page-
No harm thought Leader of the Church to read
A Spiritual meaning to each fact-

A Spiritual lesson from each deed

But such a fatal reasoning did detract

From simple statements all their force and powerAnd then, alas, the more than fatal hour

When Church robbed Israel of her God given PlaceAnd utterly cast out the Jews—as Race

From thousand Promises in ancient book

Gave Jew the curse-the Church the Blessing took.
Jerusalem on the Prophetic Page

The Heavenly City of the Christian age,
And every little church a Zion stood,
And every Jewish blessing understood
A boon alone in spiritual sense,

The Jew was robbed by Piety intense

By earthly Leaders-dare Later Christian say
Such holy minds in such would go astray—
So centuries of usage shaped a creed
That only from The Devil did proceed-
Such crime of Early Fathers handed down
And he who differed was a knave or clown-
Until God's words became Kaleidoscope—
(Destroying once for all the Jewish Hope)