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The Fulness of The Gentiles
Swift speeds the time, the time long since foretold,When all the nations shall be gathered in;
The scroll of Prophecy be all unrolled,
And a new Age, a grander Age begin.
By signs the day its coming doth portend,
In swifter intercourse the nations meet,
Old dynasties are hastening to their end,
The electric wire its circuits doth complete.
O Love, that did the Apostle's bosom swell,
And gave him knowledge of the mystery high,
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Would that like him, we saw Christ's Kingdom nigh!
Come, Church Triumphant! in thy glory come;
And gather all earth's weary children home!
Poem No. 453; c. 8 July 1871
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