GOD'S MEASURE.

God measures souls by their capacity

For entertaining his best Angel, Love.

Who loveth most is nearest kin to God,

Who is all Love, or Nothing.

He who sits

And looks out on the palpitating world,

And feels his heart swell in him large enough

To hold all men within it, he is near

His great Creator's standard, though he dwells

Outside the pale of churches, and knows not

A feast-day from a fast-day, or a line

Of Scripture even. What God wants of us

Is that outreaching bigness that ignores

All littleness of aims, or loves, or creeds,

And clasps all Earth and Heaven in its embrace.