Jacob 5:74 -- "And thus they labored, with all diligence, according to the commandments of the Lord of the vineyard, even until the bad had been cast away out of the vineyard, and the Lord had preserved unto himself that the trees had become again the natural fruit; and they became like unto one body; and the fruits were equal; and the Lord of the vineyard had preserved unto himself the natural fruit, which was most precious unto him from the beginning."
The natural fruit is one at heart, at soul, in body, too;
it grows upon the sturdy vine for all the world to view.
The bad fruit may hold sway a while, in gaudy splendor ripe;
but it is doomed to be plucked up and flushed down sewer pipe.
Preserve me, Lord, from pest and gall, from sin and storm and drought;
O help me evergreen in faith to do thy will and sprout!
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