I invite you to open your Bibles with me to Psalm 133. "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down on the beard, the beard of Aaron. Running down on the edge of his garments. It is like the dew of Hermon, descending upon the mountains of Zion; for there the Lord commanded the blessing--life forevermore." Behold, how good it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

There is nothing more precious than unity in the Lord. It is what the Lord desires and longs for in your home; between husbands and wives and children and parents. That is what He longs for in our church. It is the thing that will allow Him to pour out His blessings upon us and give us Pentecost all over again--even greater.

It is the thing that Jesus wanted for His disciples. How He longed for His disciples to dwell together in unity. But it seemed so impossible. They were in contention during His whole time with them. Imagine Jesus influence. He picked twelve men whom He thought He could teach, and yet handpicking eleven men, plus one who weaseled himself in. With the eleven men that Jesus picked, for all the three years that He was with them, He was never able to bring them into unity.

It shows how deep is the prejudice, discord and pride of the human heart. Jesus Himself could not bring unity to His disciples. They came to unity after they saw Jesus hanging on the cross. But how they were in contention throughout His ministry! How it hurt the heart of Jesus! They were jealous because of John. He was too young to be an elder. He was only in his early twenties and Jesus chose him as first.

What was Jesus concern on the last night with the disciples and his counsel for them? We are going to look at a few verses in John chapters 13 through John 17. These are all accounts of Jesus discourse with the disciples on His last night on earth with them. What was His burden for them?

It says in verse 33, "Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek me; and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you cannot come, So now I say to you, A new commandment I give to you that you love one another; [Now, He is talking to the twelve. He is telling them that you should love one another as I have loved you that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another."

Now the disciples had the Ten Commandments. They believed that you should not have any other gods, should not have any idols, should not take the name of God in vain. You should keep the seventh day Sabbath as holy, honor your parents; they knew how to do that. They should not kill and they should not steal. They should not commit adultery. They should not bear false witness and they should not covet.

They had these commandments, but Jesus said I am giving you a new commandment, quoting from the Old Testament. There was a commandment there, but somehow it had not found a place in their hearts. He said, I am giving you a new commandment that you will love one another as I have loved you.

I wonder if it was possible for the disciples, and I wonder if it would be possible for us to be supposedly keeping ten of the commandments without love? So Jesus says, I am giving you a new commandment. If you love one another, by this all men will know that you are my disciples. That is where the power comes. That is when God can give the power, when you have love for one another.

It is love that is the basis of true unity. It is love that is the basis of peace. Jesus went on to say in Chapter 15, verses 9--14, "As the Father loved Me, I also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Fathers commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you." He repeats it.

You know, this is the most important thing the disciples can have. If they have everything else but they have not love, they do not have anything, Paul says. I Corinthians 13 says that if you have all faith so that you can remove mountains but do not have love, they are nothing. They are nothing! If they know everything and do not have love, it is worthless. If they accomplish all kinds of deeds, and even give their bodies to be burned and have not love, it is not going to do them one bit of good. No good!

Jesus is trying to impress the disciples with their desperate need. But Lord, what do you mean? Surely we have love. We dwell together, we live together, we eat together, we have been with each other for three years. He said, No, this is a new commandment for you. I want you to learn to love just as I love. "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down His life for His friends. And you are my friends if you do whatever I command." John 15:13.

What was it that Jesus had commanded them to do? He had commanded them to love. Now, someone says, I just cannot have love for my neighbor, not that kind of love. But Jesus said, This is a command. We are told that all Gods biddings are enabling. When God commands you to do something, He gives you the strength to do it.

Husbands are commanded to love their wives. They are not asked to love their wives. They are commanded to love their wives. I cannot love her! I have lost that first flickering flame. It got extinguished somewhere along the line. The Bible commands you to love her. Whenever God commands, He gives you the power to do it. Love is not some fickle thing that floats around in the air some place. It is a principle that God plants in the heart.

I venture to say that if you have not learned to cultivate love in the home, you probably do not have a lot of love in the church either. It has to begin at home. So God has commanded us to love one another. Jesus says, You are My friends if you keep my command, which is to love one another. Then you are My friends. That is what I am asking you to do. That is My dying request. That is My last Will and Rights. I am dying tomorrow and this is what I am preaching to you about today, that you love one another, as I have loved you.

I am asking you to do it and I am pleading with you to do it and lam commanding you to do it. And lam giving you the power to do it. Start in your home with your children, your wife and your husband. Bring it into the church. Spread it around in the community. Love one another as I have loved you.

As we look in our hearts, have we found that we are obeying the commandments of Jesus? Are we His friends? Or do we find in our hearts bitterness, envy, jealousy and all these things? Are you the friend of Jesus? All discord has its roots in selfishness, envy, pride, jealousy, fault finding, all these things have roots found in selfishness. Unity has its root in love. Love brings unity. Selfishness brings discord. That is the difference between the two.

Turn with me to John 17:22, 23. This is Jesus prayer just before going to the garden. His closing prayer with the disciples. He had already left the upper room. It says, "The glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one." What was the glory of Jesus? The glory of Jesus was His love. There was not a lot of other glory around. He did not have fancy clothes or fancy degrees or fancy positions and people hated Him. Wherever He went there was contention and dissension and trouble.

But Jesus had love. He said, This is My glory. Jesus glory was His character. "The glory which You gave Me I have given to them. [Now the glory of Jesus was His character and He said, I have given this glory to My disciples] That they may be one just as We are one. I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me."

What makes for unity? What makes for discord? We will look at three principles. It is a subject that we need to be concerned about because if we cannot dwell together in peace, harmony and love here, how are we going to do it in heaven?

And how are we ever going to see Gods work finished if we do not have that unity which is the pre-requisite of His sending the Holy Spirit out among us and upon us? We are not going to do the work on our own, are we? We can try but what we need today is the power of the Holy Spirit, a revival, a reformation. We can never have it until we have that love that leads to unity.

When that unity is developed in the church, that love, that unity in the Lord--not unity in error. There is going to be a certain unity in the world before Jesus comes. All the world is going to be united behind the beast. All the world is going to follow the beast. There is no virtue in being united in that! There is no virtue in being united with anyone except the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus was not able to unite the Jewish nation. It took Him a long time to unite the twelve disciples. But this is the thing that is needed in our church in order for us to finish the work that God has given us to do and in order for God to get us ready to take us to heaven. He wants to have a people that He can translate.

I read in the beautiful book of Jesus parables, Christs Object Lessons, 69, "When the character of Christ shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will come to claim them as His own." Jesus said, You are My friends if you do My commandment, which is to love one another. When we have this character, then Jesus will come to claim us, but not until then.

He will claim us when our characters reproduce His character. Oh, God is longing to reproduce His character. He is longing to fill our church with His blessing, with His power, with His peace. That is what He wants to do more than anything else. Is that what you want? Is it worth studying about? Now, you know there are a lot of people that are trying to bring unity.

There are ecumenical movements around the world. I was invited to a prayer breakfast with the other ministers in Wichita to unite with the Pope in praying for peace and unity. There are a lot of people working and striving for unity. A lot of ideas on how unity should come, but if we are really going to find the true principles of unity, where do you think we are going to find them?

You know, the devil has a plan for unity. It is called compromise and flattery. Look with me at Psalm 5:9, 10. "For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is destruction; their throat is an open tomb; they flatter with their tongues. [An open tomb; they flatter. Have you ever read about Jesus flattering? Is that the way He created unity? No, probably a lot of us would not be too united with Jesus]. Pronounce them guilty, Oh, God! Let them fall by their own counsels; Cast them out in the multitude of Your transgression, for they have rebelled against You." The devil has a plan. It is a popular plan. It is a pleasing plan to bring unity and peace, but it does not work. It never works. Gods plan works. I want to find His plan, what about you?

Now, I have to warn you, if you are interested in Gods plan, it is not a real popular plan. That is why we have not found it yet, maybe. I am looking at three principles that God uses for unity. These are not the only principles that are going to be found. You might like to write these down. We are just going to go over three; that is not too hard to remember. So, if someone asks you next week what the sermon was about, at least you can come up with three points. That is not too many to remember.

The first principle for unity is that we must dwell on Christs character. We become what we think about, do we not? We become what we dwell upon. By beholding we become changed. We must train our minds to dwell upon Jesus Christ, His Word and His goodness. That is why memorizing is good. Take the Bible with you when you go, when you have a few spare moments, do not pick up some worthless magazine, open the Bible and dwell upon the character of Jesus Christ.

1 John 4:7-11 says, "Beloved, let us love one another for love is of God. [Are you going to learn how to love from television? Or from the psychiatrist? Or from some other book? Love is from God, that is where we learn it]. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love, does not know God." You see, the way to learn to love is to learn about God, to fasten the mind upon Him until the mind assimilates His character and His goodness.

I will tell you, friends, if we will spend time dwelling upon the character of God, our whole idea of love will change and our characters will change. "In this the love of God was manifest toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another."

If we do not love one another, of course, we do not know God. "We also ought to love one another." God loved us and if we know Him we will, because our minds and our characters will be changed. We will never become like God unless we somehow find time in our daily schedule to spend time with Him and unless we train our minds to dwell upon Him.

My friends, if your mind is dwelling upon the cesspool of this earth, on the trash you can find everywhere you turn, if that is what your thoughts are upon, you are going to have marriage problems. You are going to have problems in the church. You are going to have false feelings. We are told that many people will end up thinking that they are saved, thinking that everyone else in the church is the problem when they themselves are the problem. Lo and behold, one day they find that they are lost, too late.

Train your mind to think not upon gossip, not upon slander, not upon all the other things that you might dwell upon. Train your mind to dwell upon the character and love of Jesus Christ, on His life, and your life will be changed. You will find a power in your life. You will find a peace in your life. You will find a joy in your life. You will find your life changing moment by moment.

The next principle we find in the Bible is that we must be humble, and not envious, not contentious for position, notice and recognition. Look with me at Matthew 18:1--5. This was back when the disciples were still contending for their rights, which was all the time that Jesus was with them. At that time the disciples came to Jesus saying, "Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Is it John? Or is it Peter? Or is it Judas? Who is going to be the greatest?

"Then Jesus called a little child to Him and set him, in the midst of them, and He said, 'Assuredly, I say unto you. "I believe that what Jesus said was the truth. That was just a statement. I believe that when Jesus said something, it was truth. Now when Jesus said, "Assuredly," it is still the truth but He is trying to get us to realize, Listen, I am not just giving you some good platitudes here, I am telling you the absolute truth and it applies to you, not to someone else.

And so Jesus said, "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. You will not even get there, let alone be the greatest. You are not even going to get there! "Therefore, whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives one little child like this in My name, receives Me."

Jesus said, If you are contending for first place, you had better get converted or you are not even going to get there, let alone be first. You are not converted. You must become like a little child. Oh, but someone says, But I am an old pillar! I should be the head. Have you ever considered how old Jesus was when He became the Messiah, which means the Anointed One? He was baptized there in the Jordan River and began His public ministry, calling His disciples to Himself.

How old was He? Thirty years old? That is really old, is it not? No wonder a lot of the Pharisees and Sadducees did not follow Him. They were too old and wise to follow some young, impudent, upstart like that! Have you ever considered how old Ellen White was when God called her to be a prophet to the Remnant Church? She had just turned seventeen. Now I wonder if you had been a leader in the Millerite movement and you were up in your forties or fifties or sixties and you had been preaching for years, I wonder how well you would have accepted that ministry if she had rebuked you?

Jesus said, Unless you become like little children, you are not even going to make it. You must be converted. No, there are so many of us that think that we have become so old and wise.. We have been in the church for so long. We know so much. The Bible says, The danger of becoming old and wise in the church is to become lukewarm. God has to raise up young people and new converts to try to get life back in the church.

Then do you know what the older people do? They try to hold back the progress of God. Do you know who they are fighting against? God. God wants to revive His church. I mean He wants to revive the whole denomination. He wants to revive all of us. He wants to revive this church right here.

If it is possible, He is going to do it. Look with me at Matthew 21:12--16. "Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, [Somebody might say that was not a loving act or unifying act] and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves." Let me tell you, friends, love does not countenance evil in the church.

Evil will never bring unity. It never has. Compromise never brings unity. It never has and it never will. "And He said to them, 'It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves. Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying 'Hosanna to the son of David! they were indignant and said to Him, 'Do you hear what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, 'Yes. Have you never read, Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants you have perfect praise."

So Jesus went on to say in Chapter 23:11, 12. "But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whoever exalts himself shall be abased and he who humbles himself will be exalted." There will never exist unity in the home or in the church while someone is striving for first place.

And so we see two principles. One is that we must spend time dwelling upon Jesus and that brings the second, which is humility. We will never find humility in ourselves because by nature we are proud. But as we spend time dwelling upon the life, love and character of Jesus Christ, it leads us to humility and that is the next principle that we need.

I would like to look at a third principle and that is that we must preach and practice health reform if we expect to have unity in the church. Look with me at Numbers 11:4--7. "Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: 'Who will give us meat to eat. We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes! Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium."

Verse 31: "Now a wind went out from the Lord, and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp about a days journey on this side and about a days journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground. And the people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all the next day, [Thirty-six hours straight--it said they had an intense craving! They did not even sleep that night. They were going to get their bellies filled.] and gathered the quail. (He who gathered least gathered ten homers);" [A homer is six and one half bushels] How many bushels did the least gather? Sixty-five bushels! They were in earnest! They decided that they may not have another treat like this for another forty years and they were going to get what they could get while they could get it] and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. But while the meat was still between their teeth before it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was aroused against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague." I would like you to note in Psalm 106 what David says followed. They had a plague and they died, but what did it lead the people to do?

Look at verses 13-18: "They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert. And He gave them their request, but He sent leanness into their souls." What did He give them? He gave them meat to eat, the Bible says. What happened next in verse 16? They envied Moses. They rejected the guide God gave them first. Secondly they had leanness of the soul and thirdly "they envied Moses in the camp. And Aaron the saint of the Lord, The earth opened up and swallowed Dathoan, and covered the faction of Abiram. A fire was kindled in their company; [The flame spread] burned up the wicked."

And so there were four things that David showed that happened: They first rejected the health message that God gave them. They next had leanness of soul. They next envied and stirred up contention and finally they were destroyed by the just retribution of God. I would like to read a divine commentary on this found in Testimonies for the Church, volume 3, 171, 172. It says, "The children of Israel would have flesh meats and said, as many now say: We shall die without meat. God gave rebellious Israel flesh, but His curse was with it. Thousands of them died while the meat they desired was between their teeth. We have the example of ancient Israel and the warning for us not to do as they did."

Dear friends, God is the same today as He was yesterday. Now, why was it that God gave the children of Israel a vegetarian diet? Why was it that He took meat away from them? "The state of the mind has largely to do with the health of the body, and especially with the health of the digestive organs. As a general thing, the Lord did not provide His people with flesh meat in the desert, because He knew that the use of this diet would create disease and insubordination." Counsels on Diet and Foods, 375.

Insubordination and contention go along with meat eating in the church. It happened with Israel. "In order to modify the disposition, and bring the higher powers of the mind into active exercise, He removed from them the flesh of dead animals. He gave them angels food, manna, from heaven." Ibid.

What are we told that meat eating leads to in the church? What did it lead to in the children of Israel? Insubordination, envy, jealousy, contention. Dear friends, if we are really going to deal with unity, we need to go beyond the surface. We need to get down to the heart of the problem. We need to deal with all of the ramifications of the situation. We need to spend time with Jesus every day. We need to become humble and we need to become health reformers.

The children of Israel failed because they rejected the diet that God had given them; it led them to insubordination. It led them to envy, faultfinding, jealousy and discord and prevented them from entering Canaan. I wonder if the same things could apply to us today? This is one of the reasons why we are still wandering in the wilderness, while we have not reached our heavenly home yet. In 1883 Ellen White said, "God did not design that His people, Israel, should wander forty years in the wilderness . . . But those to whom it was first preached, went not in 'because of unbelief. Their hearts were filled with murmuring, rebellion, and hatred.

The same sins have delayed the entrance of modem Israel into the heavenly Canaan. . . It is the unbelief, the worldliness, non-consecration, strife among the Lords professed people that have kept us in this world of sin and sorrow so many years. Oh, how our heart bled." (Eighteen years later she was still lamenting the same thing. She said,) "We may have to remain here in this world because of insubordination many more years." Evangelism, 696. She did not look for Jesus soon coming in 1901. What led to their insubordination? They rejected the health reform message. I have a question. Do you think that the same rejection of health reform will also lead to insubordination today as it did back then or are we somehow different than they were?

Dear friend, if you are struggling with the temptation to murmur and complain, I would urge you to look at your diet. What are you eating?

I would like to look at just a couple more statements the Lord gave to us on this same principle. You know, for the first fifteen hundred sixty-five years, God gave mankind a diet that was free from disease, a diet of vegetables, fruits, grains and nuts. Man lived for nine hundred fifty years. After the flood, God shortened mans life. But before leading the children of Israel into Canaan, He led them back to His original diet.

Today, in the last days of earths history, before leading us into the heavenly Canaan, in order to get us ready for translation, He is leading us back again to that original diet. Now, like the children of Israel, He will not force anyone. He will not force you and He will not force me. But dear friend, He is testing us. The animals are more diseased than ever before because Gods Spirit is being withdrawn from the earth. Out of love for us, God wants to protect us from these diseases, both spiritually and physically.

I would like to read a few statements from Counsels on Diet and Foods, 380--384. "Again and again I have been shown that God is trying to lead us back, step by step, to His original design,-- that man should subsist upon the natural products of the earth. . . Is it not time that all should dispense with flesh foods? [How many did she say? All.] How can those who are seeking to become pure, refined, and holy, that they may have the companionship of heavenly angels, continue to use as food anything that has so harmful an affect on soul and body?

Among those who are waiting for the coming of the Lord, meat eating will eventually be done away; flesh will cease to form a part of their diet. . Those who use flesh meat disregard all the warnings that God has given concerning this question. [They have no evidence that they are walking in safe paths.] They have not the slightest excuse for eating the flesh of dead animals. . . When will those who know the truth take their stand on the side of right principles for time and for eternity? When will they be true to the principles of health reform? When will they learn that it is dangerous to use flesh meats? I am instructed to say that if ever meat eating were safe, it is not safe today."

Well, what does diet have to do with unity? We saw that it leads to insubordination. Not only what we eat, but what we drink. That is why God has warned us against these drugs that lead to addiction such as alcohol, nicotine and caffeine. Let me read a little bit more, since this is a practical message today. We are dealing with practical issues.

From Counsels on Diet and Foods, 422, 423: "The habit of drinking tea and coffee is a greater evil than is often suspected. . . When these tea and coffee users meet together for social entertainment, the effects of their pernicious habit are manifested. All partake freely of the favorite beverages, and as the stimulating influence is felt, their tongues are loosened, and they begin the wicked work of talking against others. Their words are not few or well chosen. The tidbits of gossip are passed around, too often the poison of scandal as well. These thoughtless gossipers forget that they have a witness. An unseen watcher is writing their words in the books of heaven. All these unkind criticisms, these exaggerated reports, these envious feelings expressed under the cup of tea, Jesus registers as against Himself."

What does coffee and tea do? It stimulates the nervous system and it prevents the Holy Spirit from coming into the life and it leads to gossip, fault finding and scandal. Now, somebody says, That cannot be true! Everyone drinks coffee and tea. Yes, that is just about true. If you will notice almost everyone spreads scandal, gossip and mischief. If you go down to the grocery store and there as you pass out, there are whole magazines of nothing but gossip and people eat it up!

Whole elections are won and lost by who can get out the most garbage on the other person, the most scandal. Dear friend, God does not want this spirit in the church, does He? He is trying to help us in every way possible. He is trying to give us nerves that are not irritable. He is trying to give us healthy dispositions, clear minds, sweet characters. We must spend time with Jesus every day and we must live a life that His Holy Spirit can fill.

I read in Welfare Ministry, 124: "To my ministering brethren I would say, prosecute this work with tact and ability. Set to work the young men and the young women in our churches. Combine the medical missionary work with the proclamation of the third angels message. . . Send into the churches workers who will set the principles of health reform in their connection with the third angels message before every family and individual. Encourage all to take part in work for their fellow men, and see if the breath of life will not quickly return to these churches."

Dear friend, that is what we want, is it not? We want to see Gods life and power return to the church and God says, If we are going to see it happen, bring the message of health reform to every family and individual in the church and it will happen. Dear friend, I want to see a plan of unity take place in this church, do you not? I want to see a power take place. But we will never find it in any other place except in Gods way. We must follow Him if we want to see it happen.

I want to see it happen in our church. Jesus began His ministry with a forty-day fast in order to conquer on appetite. If we are going to be ready for Jesus Second Coming, we also are going to have to conquer on appetite. Well, Jesus is coming soon. In 1 Corinthians 10:1-12, Paul says that the children of Israel ate spiritual food but because they rejected the spiritual food, they were led into idolatry and murmuring and they did not get to Canaan but rather their bodies were spread out over the wilderness.

Dear friends, I do not want my body in the wilderness. Do you? I want to make it to Canaan. Today God is giving us spiritual food. Our food has a relationship. Paul was talking about the manna Israel literally ate, but our food has a relationship with our spirituality. Our drink has a relationship with our spirituality.

Jesus is coming soon to take us to heaven. If He should come today, could you live with your neighbor there? What if God ordained some elders in heaven that were younger than you? What if He set out on the table some foods that you had not learned to like and He did not set out the things that you had grown accustomed to? Would you rebel? In heaven God is going to have the pure in heart. There are not going to be any murmurs or troublemakers in heaven. Rather, those who go to heaven are going to learn to love as Jesus loves.

Let us turn to our closing text in l John 3:11-16. "For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brothers righteous. Do marvel, my brethren, if the world hate you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also are to lay down our lives for the brethren.

I would like to close with a call. We are dealing with an important work. We want to see Jesus come. I want to see Him come, do you not? One of the requirements for Jesus to come is for unity to dwell in the church and in our home and our hearts. I would like to give a call for those who would like to work for the unity of this church by spending more time with Jesus every day, by asking Him for humility and by seeking to follow the health reform message that we have been given. I wonder how many would be willing to stand and commit themselves to a program of unity in the church?

I think of that song, "Tis almost time for the Lord to come, I hear the people say; The stars of heaven are growing dim, It must be the breaking of the day. It must be time for the waiting church, To cast her pride away, With girded loins and burning lamps, To look for the breaking of the day."