Supreme Priority

There is a fundamental literacy
Needful for all men
That the Writ alone provides

Which when is lacking
In word and spirit
With all degrees and certificates
Nonetheless

Such will occupy perennially
The room of the unlearned
Until Shiloh comes

Where we learn God, as God alone
Can be learned
Where the taught worship

Where we learn of man
His sole distinction being the
One in Whose image
He is made

Where we learn of earth
As more than geoid
Even all the works of Creator's hands
Given to man,to subdue
For his God

Where we learn of history
The kind that matters
Of original design, of the Fall
Of the beginning of faith,
the Law as fore
the coming of Grace
And the fulfilment of all things

Where we learn of sin
Its strong weakness
Its blinding eclipse
And the familiar alien it induces
The Death it produces

Where we learn of Christ
God as Man, with man, in man, for man
Reconciling the same
And His earth to Himself

Where we learn of judgement
From the fire of the conscience
Available in all
And verily quenchable

To The fire for the unconscionable
And that- unquenchable

How is the tutelage
Of the young one
Or the old
Complete without these

That neither Pythagoras, nor Plato
Einstein, nor Sophocles, nor Hippocrates, nor Malthus nor Einstein, nor Schroedinger, nor Darwin, nor their forbears, nor their proselytes could nor can teach us

That greater than Solomon-
greater than Shakespeare, greater than Socrates, greater than Ahithophel, greater
than Gandhi - is here
God in Christ and Christ in us
The restoration of all things

Shall we not behold His glory?
Shall we not be found in Him?
Dead, buried, and in Him, risen again?
For if in this world alone, we have hope
We must be of all men, les miserables
But having been found grace
We use great boldness of speech

Adding to geometry, and to stoichometry. To syntax, and to Marx, To tebibyte, and to tellurite. To indemnity and immunity. To circuit board and sculpted gourd, to polity, to economy, to the business of the day

The common debt, the narrow way, the blood of sprinkling, the grace of God, the cloud of witnesses, the great commission, the divine will, abundant life, and the greatest commandments.

To school therefore!
Hasten to be taught
By the Truth; sell it not
This treasure will endure
And dawn shall incise the darkness
And light shall pierce your heart.