+ 2ND POEMS: The Scattered Brethren Of SharedWay Baptist Church

[after 1 John 2:18c; Acts 20:29; Acts 11:20-21;

1 Peter 5:10; 2 Corinthians 12:9-10; Zephaniah 3:12-20;

Jeremiah 6:16; Philippians 1:5, Ephesians 3:9] 

 

Brethren, our precious fellowship was scattered

two years and eight months after my conversion,

Some moved away, by work's necessity;

and some few, having been unfairly battered,.

departed through verbal, vernal coercion--

itself a sordid sin and blasphemy

(which faithless had given entrance to slip

among us).  Like those led to other places

after Stephen was murdered, we have borne

the Gospel of our Lord's plan of Salvation

across the length and width of this great nation.

Apart, for now, during this separation,

we will, someday, rejoice to see the torn

mended by our Lord, Whose amazing Grace's

unceasing care is our sufficiency.

He will, in His time, bring to restoration

the redeemed who are the great congregation,

who shall not be lost in the last conflagration,

and whose souls will rejoice in supreme exultation:

the joy of the Common Salvation

in eternally infinite jubilation.


Starward

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