The design of love / written by E.B.

  • Parker, George Williams.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The design of love / written by E.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    That one who nobly dared to own the right,* And truly spoke but as JEHOVAH bade, Should now in senile folly turn aside From glorious prize that lay within the grasp ; And seek, with spirit pitiful to see, 710. To stay a word HIMSELF had onward sent! But not a word of HIS can ever fail; Whose unseen vapour rises to the skies, To soon return as all-refreshing rain For though is slain a Book—its Spirit lives ; And that indeed will yield a precious fruit, Long ere a great and final Harvest day— Where still perchance for Balaam Mercy waits ! The Song of LOVE. Then clearly rose the gentler (I. Cor. xin. 13) strains of LOVE,f Whose prescient eye on Time’s horizon saw 720. The consummation of a grand design A mighty THREE had planned as Time began !—- The glorious triumph^ waiting ages mourn ; When loathsome Evil, stript of all disguise, Would prostrate fall before the feet of GOOD — And jealous Hate, its ceaseless warfare o’er, Obey a mighty spell of conquering LOVE !— And SELF, the greatest rebel ever known, Restore a stolen throne to rightful LORD ! Then Patmos saw appear in fading Time§ 730. What all of shorter sight desire to see— A NEWER ZION decked as joyous bride ; Whose golden street is trodden night and day * Through fear of that “ tyranny behind the Pope the Jesuit tyranny,” the spirit which energizes in the united body of the Roman Cardinals, the vox popidi which claims to be the vox del!—“the same Pope both blessed and cursed the same book ” (and that book “ The Life of Christ”) “ within the short space of one year5’ [Dec. 1887 to Dec. 1888]—the “ one day ” (prophetic'* foretold in Rev. xviii. 8 ! t a.d. 1887 (March 13th), “The Design of Love” received in original outline and begun. J Same year (June 20th, 1887), celebration of Jubilee of Queen Victoria on completion of 50th year of her reign. § Rev. xxii. 1.