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BETHLEHEM GATE
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Through ever-open gates they press,
A new and living way they tread,
So gain they the true ’House of Bread,’
A garden for a wilderness.


A flight it seems to us; to them
It is a going forth to win
The world from Satan and from sin,
And build the New Jerusalem.


Lord Christ! for every seeking soul
Thou art Thyself the Door, the Way;
All, all shall find one coming day
Thy Heart their everlasting goal!

Loch Leven: 1884.