Churches!
Thank God for the sight of them,
The beauty, the dreams and the right of them.
In country and city, on mountain and moor,
Churches with welcome at the door.
Churches that silently testify,
With spires and crosses reared to the sky,
That make us think every time we look,
Of God and right and the Holy Book.
Churches!
Thank God for the heart of them,
The people who live as a part of them.
Praying and learning the things to do,
Giving and laboring, proving them true.
Mastering lethargy. selfishness, fear,
Dreaming of Heaven, building it here.
Churches!
Thank God for the scope of them,
For the aims and the deeds and the hope of them.
-----Chauncey R. Peity
