“Seeing is believing”

The Bread of Life.

(The Gospel History, Section 64)

But I said unto you, that ye have seen me, and yet believe not.

“Seeing is believing”

(The Saviour of the World, Vol IV, Book I, Poem XIX)

“But I said unto you, that ye have seen me, and yet believe not.”

And spake the Lord: “In this are ye condemned,
That seeing Me, yet have ye not believed!”

Ah Lord, those Jews, how happy, eye to eye
Might see the Son of Man in all His grace!
How could they not believe who Goodness saw
Incarnate in their midst! Sure, did we see
All love, all suffering, manifest in Him,
Then all the air were filled with beat of wings—
Our homing souls come fluttering to His breast!
How may a tale these ages old compel
As the vision of the Lord in our very midst!

Nay, pause my soul! The problem of our faith,
Lies it not just in this,—to see through a veil,
To discern the mystery of things unseen
Through common-seeming things of every day?
Perchance we easier the Christ may see
Stripped of poor trappings of mortality!

St. John vi. 36.