Tune: Quebec
('Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts')
Matthew 21 v.42 & v.44
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Christ, He be the chief corner stone
The house built sure on Him alone
Yet the builders Him rejected
Would build up their own house instead
Yet same corner stone is become
Head of the corner, not just some
Of the building does He uphold
But every part, let it be told
This is the Lord's doing, it be
Marvellous in our eyes, we see
Building is built by Him, secure
Founded on Christ for evermore
Whoso shall fall on this stone shall
Be broken, heed what now does tell
But on whoso this stone shall fall
They shall be ground to powder all
Lord, help us rather fall on you
And willing to be broken too
That you fall not on us, it dire
It shall be our end, our expire
But moulded in you service, we
To your plan and shape sure will be
Part of the building, of the whole
We are in body, spirit, soul
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: July 6th, 2021 01:47
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.8.8.8. metre.
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Comments4
It was man who dictated that fine places should be built to worship god. Surely god would have chosen to spend money and effort to assist more charitible causes.
Surely, rather than keep re-investing its vast wealth, the various churches should be following the will of being poor christians able to enter heaven avoiding the biblical 'eye of a needle' test.
Thanks dusk.
I imagine being ground to a powder is only marginally worse than being pulverised into an opaque paste ..
Thanks N. Seems it's one choice or the other. Better to be fall upon a stone, than for it to fall upon us!
In my bones, I know the importance of that corner stone, that you have so poetically reminded us
Thanks M.
Good one Orchi
Thanks Gold.
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