As the body is the fulness (Hymn 819)

Verse 1: As the body is the fulness To express our life, So to Christ the Church, His Body, Doth express His life. Verse 2: E'en as Eve is part of Adam Taken out of him, So the Church is Christ's own increase With Himself within. Verse 3: As from out the buried kernel Many grains are formed, As the grains together blended To a loaf are formed; Verse 4: So the Church, of many Christians, Christ doth multiply, Him expressing as one Body, God to glorify. Verse 5: As the branches of the grapevine Are its outward spread, With it one, abiding, bearing Clusters in its stead; Verse 6: So the Church's many members Christ's enlargement are, One with Him in life and living, Spreading Him afar. Verse 7: Fulness, increase, duplication, His expression full, Growth and spread, continuation, Surplus plentiful, Verse 8: Is the Church to Christ, and thereby God in Christ may be Glorified thru His redeemed ones To eternity. Verse 9: Thus the Church and Christ together, God's great mystery, Is the mingling of the Godhead With humanity.