...terrestrial sing, With those to glory gone; For all the servants of our King, In earth and heaven, are one. One family we dwell in him, One church, above, beneath,...narrow stream of death: One army of the living God, To his command we bow; Part of his host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now. Ten thousand...

...not, however, merely an "earthbound" church. As God's Church, it is not limited to time and space. One family we dwell in him, One church above, beneath,...Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death.5 In "Christ from whom all blessings flow" he also makes very explicit the unity of the Church....

...unscriptural terms of the 'Church militant' and the 'Church triumphant', arid in hymn book diction to sing— 'One family we dwell in Him, One church, above, beneath;...divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death'— is not only to lose the revelation of a great truth of God, but to put error in Us place. Rightly divided,...