The Son of God has come to sow

The Son of God has come to sow

Himself

the seed of life

in man

That thru Himself God’s Kingdom grow

And thus fulfill th’ eternal plan.

He was the only grain of wheat

Whence many grains have been produced

To be the Kingdom’s children meet

Thru whom God’s reign is introduced.

But Satan

enemy of God

Sowed many tares among the wheat

The Kingdom’s children to confuse

And awful damage to create.

’Tis by this subtle work of his

The mixing of the tares with wheat

The Kingdom in appearance is

Abnormal and grotesquely great.

The Kingdom should as mustard be

A little herb

yet good for food

But it has changed into a “tree

”

A system of great magnitude.

Instead of being good for food

A lodge of “birds” it has become:

’Tis now a place where evil men

And evil spirits make their home.

A great religion of the world

Its outward form to us reveals.

Including pagan

evil things

As leaven mingled with the meal.

A system of the world as such

It thus has changed in outward form;

By evil things which it imbibes

Corruption inwardly doth swarm.

But something hidden God doth seek

As “pearl” and “treasure in the field”;

As such the Lord would us transform

That pearl and treasure be revealed.

’Tis hidden from vast Christendom

And from the Kingdom’s great facade

Yet in its full reality

’Tis transformed like to Christ and God.

Lord

separate us from the “tares

”

And save us from the monstrous “tree”;

From all the “leaven” purge us now

That we may purely be of Thee.

May Thou in life transform our souls

That we as precious stones may be

Meet for Thy house to build and in

Thy Kingdom’s full reality.