"What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?" (Mark 9:33).

"What was it that ye questioned by the way?"
Thy first disciples, Lord, with shame were dumb.
Nor could they then, for shame, confess the sum
Of that for which they quarreled by the way-
Which of them should (in place) the greatest be

And this-while they had companied with Thee!
This, too, when Thou, their Saviour, Lord Divine,
Had shown them that Thy life of love, e'en Thine,
Should be delivered up to death, by men
Of wicked minds, and then be raised again!
Once more, O loving Lord, we hear Thee say:-
"What was it that ye questioned by the way?"
And we with shame are dumb, even as they,
For have not we "disputed," even we,
About the very life we owe to Thee!

Those emblems, Lord, of Thine outpoured life,
Have been the subject of unholy strife!
Thy Body broken, and Thy Blood outpoured,
Should surely save us from such sad discord;
Oh, how we have misrepresented Thee, our Lord!

Once more, O Lord, we see Thee take a child
And set him in our midst, all undefiled
By doubt, or sophistry, or skeptic kink,
But, simply trusting, take his food and drink;
May we as simply take soul food from Thee.

May we, through those "memorials" vision see-
Of Love, that suffered that we might go free,
Of Life, supplied from Thine exhaustless store,
Of Love that makes us love our brethren more,
And leads us still our Saviour to adore. -"A. Witness"
'MARK THE PERFECT MAN"