CONFESSION OF FAITH,
By John Stuart Blackie.
Creeds and confes-ions ? High Church or the li< m - l cannot say; but you would vastly please us If with fome pointed Scripture you could show To which of those belonged the Saviour, Jesus. I think to all or none. Not curious creeds Or ordered forms of churchly rule He taught, But soul of love that blossomed into deeds, With human good and human blessing fraught. On me, nor priest, nor presbyter, nor poj>e, Bishop, nor dean, may stamp a party name ; But Jesus with His largely human scope. The service of *uy human life may claim. D*t prideful priests do battle about creeds, The church is mine that does most Christlike deeds.
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White Ribbon, Volume 5, Issue 54, 1 December 1899, Page 5
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