Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be:
They are but broken lights of thee,
And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
We have but faith: we cannot know;
For knowledge is of things we see
And yet we trust it comes from thee,
A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Prologue from In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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John the Baptist: Wrath - Sometimes Necessary: Never the Solution
Pentecost XXIV
Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI
November 22, 1992
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