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The Bible
That Church they founded on the Word of God,Thy Word is Truth, their single, only creed;
Obeying this they feared not princes' nod,
And this from prelates' iron yoke had freed.
As the One Spirit did its words reveal,
They strove its holy precepts to obey;
From this in Church and State was no appeal,
For none God's just commandments could gainsay.
Within the family, and in the school,
That Word was morn and eve devoutly read;
Ye, their descendants still observe the rule,
Not by the letter, but the Spirit led;
So shall our social fabric stand secure,
Long as the sun, and moon, and stars endure!
Poem No. 456; c. 1878–80
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