Adam, your God, like you on earth has been

Subject to sorrow in a world of sin:

Through long gradation he arose to be

Cloth’d with the Godhead’s might and majesty.

And what to him in his probative sphere,

Whether a Bishop, Deacon, Priest, or Seer?

Whate’ever his offices and callings were,

He magnified them with assiduous care:

by his obedience he obtain’d the place

Of God and Father of this human race.

. . .

Life’s ultimatum, unto those that live

As Saints of God, and all my pow’rs receive,

Is still the onward, upward course to tread.

To stand as Adam and Eve, the head

Of an inheritance, a new-form’d earth,

And to their spirit race, give mortal birth

Give them experience in a world like this;

Then lead them forth to everlasting bliss,

Crown’s with salvation and eternal joy

Where full perfection dwells, without alloy.