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The Epiphany

"The Universal Fellowship"

"Ye are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus."

The Readings for the week-days intervening between the Epiphany and the following Sunday are to be taken from the Sixth Week of the season, "The Supreme Fatherhood," pp. 103-110.

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Feast of The Epiphany.

The Universal Fellowship.

To make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery.--Ephesians III. 9.

God, being so great, great gifts most willingly imparts;
But we continue poor that have such narrow hearts.
Trench.

               He sees the gleams
Of better thoughts across the murkiest gloom,
The seeds of good amid the howling wastes,
And perfects them at last; and in the depths
Of His divine forbearance, suffereth long,
And passeth by transgression.  That vast throng,
The multitude of peoples, nations, tongues,
Shall stand before His Throne, and every act
Of human kindness He will own as His,
And crown, as service rendered unto Him.
Plumptre.

Ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ.
Ephes. II. 13. (R. V.)

Small, Great, are merely terms we bandy here:
Since to the Spirit's absoluteness, all
Are like!
Browning.

Lord visit Thou our souls
     And teach us by Thy grace,
Each dim revealing of Thyself
     With loving awe to trace!

All who speak truth to me commissioned are;
All who love God are in my Church embraced.
Not that I have no sense of preference--
None deeper!--but I rather love to draw,
Even here, on earth, on toward the future law
And Heaven's fine etiquette, where "Who?" and "Whence?"
May not be asked; and at the Wedding Feast,
North shall sit down with South, and West with East!
Burbidge.

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