The Rev. S. Miller Hageman predicts the unity of all human designs in
this verse:
All things yet shall work together, and so working, orb in one,
As the sun draws back its sunbeams when the dial-day is done;
All things yet shall gather roundly, and unite, and shape, and climb,
Into truth’s great golden unit, in the ripe result of time.
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One of the Greek poets sings of two devoted friends who visited
the shop of Vulcan, and desired to be joined in a closer and
indissoluble union. Vulcan took out their hearts, accordingly,
laid them on his anvil, and with many sturdy blows with his
hammer welded them into one.
A mightier power than Vulcan in a gentler way joins human hearts to one
another and all to Himself at a forge whose fire is love. (Text.)
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J. D. Freeman, in “Concerning the Christ,” says:
A building may include a multitude and variety of compartments.
The town hall of Leicester you will find a building of this
sort. The town council room is beautifully decorated with
fine paintings, and the light streams in abundantly through
stained-glass windows. It is an inviting place. But in the
basement you will find apartments with bare walls, cold stone
floors, plain benches, and iron doors with padlocks. These rooms
are occupied by a less attractive set of people. Yet all the
rooms above and below are part of one scheme, and the beautiful
council chamber can not disown the repellent cell of the prison.
The same principles hold true of our life. You can not dismember your
soul. You are not a lumber-yard where materials displace each other as
they are carted in and out; you are a structure. You have your council
chamber where reason and conscience deliberate, and also the dark cells
where unholy desires lurk and lawless passions rage. (Text.)
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=Unity Broken=--See SEPARATION.