UNITY
The Rev. S. Miller Hageman predicts the unity of all human designs in this verse:
All things yet shall work together, and so working, orb in one,
As the sun draws back its sunbeams when the dial-day is done;
All things yet shall gather roundly, and unite, and shape, and climb,
Into truth’s great golden unit, in the ripe result of time.
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One of the Greek poets sings of two devoted friends who visited the shop of Vulcan, and desired to be joined in a closer and indissoluble union. Vulcan took out their hearts, accordingly, laid them on his anvil, and with many sturdy blows with his hammer welded them into one.
A mightier power than Vulcan in a gentler way joins human hearts to one another and all to Himself at a forge whose fire is love. (Text.)