As the body is the fulness

As the body is the fulness
  To express our life,
So to Christ the Church, His Body,
  Doth express His life.

E’en as Eve is part of Adam
  Taken out of him,
So the Church is Christ’s own increase
  With Himself within.

As from out the buried kernel
  Many grains are formed,
As the grains together blended
  To a loaf are formed;

So the Church, of many Christians,
  Christ doth multiply,
Him expressing as one Body,
  God to glorify.

As the branches of the grapevine
  Are its outward spread,
With it one, abiding, bearing
  Clusters in its stead;

So the Church’s many members
  Christ’s enlargement are,
One with Him in life and living,
  Spreading Him afar.

Fulness, increase, duplication,
  His expression full,
Growth and spread, continuation,
  Surplus plentiful,

Is the Church to Christ, and thereby
  God in Christ may be
Glorified thru His redeemed ones
  To eternity.

Thus the Church and Christ together,
  God’s great mystery,
Is the mingling of the Godhead
  With humanity.