p. 3 | ONE ONLY by Llewellyn A. Morrison

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 24, 1900

ONE ONLY.

By Llewellyn A. Morrison

"One Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him." 1 Cor. 8: 6.

All matter is leavened by motive, With perfect profusion inwrought, While purpose, platonic and votive, Indwelleth in being and thought; Within at the core of all wholeness, Where fate doth her riddles decide, Designer of symbol and fulness, Doth Christ, the Creator, abide.

The seasons display His devotion To beauty's beneficent skill; While magnitude, measure, and motion Are sanctified seers of His will; The fervor of summer He sendeth All florulent forms to improve; And light, an evangel, He lendeth To publish His bountiful love.

Where color, her harmonies blending, Delighteth to charm and refine, And fragrance, on incense ascending, Ariseth from meadow and vine, In music, love's royal rendition, Expressing, to throne and to thrall, The pleasure of God, in volition, He dwelleth, the essence of all.

Yet these are but frenular fringes Of garments enrobing the Great; From under Divineness impinges, While mortals like mendicants wait; All creeds and conceptions in-biding; The pulse of all pureness, His tryst; Life's tone as its genesis guiding: The heart of it all is the Christ.

If all things are from Him and by Him, They for Him and to Him obtain, By inherent grace glorify Him Each one in their sphere and domain; For, born of His Word and begotten Of love, in His image they are; Death-ransom'd, stain-cleans'd, and blood-boughten, Their trueness no traitor may mar.

Nay, more! if the Christ is the center And source of creation intact, And each of His attributes enter Its structure in spirit and fact, Then who but the Christ is there in it As Master and Builder, to bind? For He is its sun, the Infinite, And it is the mood of His mind.

Toronto, Ont. LLEWELLYN A. MORRISON.