In vacant places, we will build with new bricks.
There are hands and machines
And clay for new brick
and lime for new mortar.
Where the bricks are fallen
we will build with new stone.
Where beams are rotten
we will build with new timbers.
Where the word is unspoken
we will build with new speech
There is work together
A Church for all and a job for each
Everyone to his work.
Fellow citizens of the saints,
of the household of GOD,
being built upon the foundation
Of apostles and prophets,
Christ Jesus Himself the chief cornerstone.
But you, have you built well,
that you now sit helpless in a ruined house?
Your building not fitly framed together,
you sit ashamed and wonder whether
and how you may be built together
for a habitation of GOD in the Spirit,
the Spirit which moved
on the face of the waters…
You, have you built well,
have you forgotten the cornerstone?
Talking of right relations of men,
but not of relations of men to GOD.
And the Church must be forever building,
and always decaying,
and always being restored.
All that is ill you may repair
if you walk together in humble repentance…
The Church must be forever building,
for it is forever decaying within
and attacked from without;
For this is the law of life;
and you must remember
that while there is time of prosperity
The people will neglect the Temple,
and in time of adversity they will decry it.
What life have you
if you have not life together?
There is no life that is not in community…
And no community not lived in praise of GOD.
In vacant places, we will build with new bricks…
There is work together
A Church for all and a job for each
Everyone to his work.