Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

WHAT IS THE CHURCH? by SAM WALTER FOSS

First Line: THE CHURCH IS MAN WHEN HIS AWED SOUL GOES OUT
Last Line: THERE IS THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH—THE CHURCH OF GOD IS THERE.
Subject(s): RELIGION; THEOLOGY;
The Church is man when his awed soul goes out
In reverence to a mystery that swathes him all about.
When any living man in awe gropes Godward in his search,
Then in that hour, that living man becomes the living Church,
Then though in wilderness or in waste, his soul is swept along
Down naves of prayer, through aisles of praise, up altar-stairs of song,
And when man fronts the mystery with spirit bowed in prayer,
There is the universal Church—the Church of God is there.



Home: PoetryExplorer.net