1. The Church's seed is nought by Christ Himself
  Sown into human hearts as life, thereby
  Growing as wheat, producing flour fine
  For bread both God and man to satisfy.
2. But Satan hath the false believers sown
  Among the saints as tares among the wheat,
  To bring confusion and to hinder growth
  That they may not fulfill God's plan complete.
3. The Church's life just as the herb must be,
  Grown out of Christ, who is the mustard seed;
  Hidden and transient, little on earth,
  But good for food the hungry ones to feed.
4. But Satan came and made the little herb
  To change its nature and to change its form,
  That fully grown it did a tree become
  Where many evil ones may lodge and swarm.
5. Satan has also used the fallen "church"
  Evil and heathen practice to include,
  As leaven mingled with the meal of wheat,
  Thus to corrupt its purity as food.
6. But Christ as life would so transform the saints
  That they may be a pearl and precious stone,
  As the materials suitable to build
  Into His Church to make His Kingdom known.
7. Such an assembly grown in Christ as life,
  Transformed and built with Christ in them annealed,
  Is as the goodly pearl for preciousness
  And as the treasure hidden in the field.
8. Lord, separate us from the devil's "tares,"
  Each on deliver from the monstrous "tree,"
  From all the "leaven" may Thou purify,
  That we may be as food to man and Thee.
9. Cause us to grow in life divine each day
  That we may be transformed and built by Thee
  Into a body to express Thyself,
  That Thou in us Thy Church and Kingdom see.