Central Hymn 424

The following Hymn display just how far Central has separated from its roots, both in the Christadelphian movement, and also as a representative of the brethren of Christ over the ages  The Donatists, clearly a group among the brethren of Christ of the ages endured capital punishment over the belief that the parable of the tare pertained to the ecclesia.  "Father" Augustine, eventually a pope, hunted down and murdered the Donatists who had left the Catholic church, using his justification that the Donatists were heretics, and the Wheat and Tares must dwell together.  True Christadelphians have never accepted the Catholic "Father's"  interpretation of the parable of wheat and tares and to see them now singing the death sentence of other Christadelphians simply boggles the mind.  (Not unlike the celebration of Christmas, by the way.)

Central Hymn 424

Come, ye thankful people, come,
Raise the song of harvest home!
All is safely gathered in
Ere the winter storms begin;
God our Maker doth provide
for our wants to be supplied;
Come to God, before Him come;
Raise the song of harvest home!

We ourselves are God’s own field,
Fruit unto His praise to yield;
Wheat and tares together sown,
Unto joy or sorrow grown;
First the blade and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear:
Grant, O harvest Lord, that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be.

For the Son of Man shall come,
And shall take his harvest home;
From his field shall purge away
All that doth offend, that day;
Give his angels charge at last
In the fire the tares to cast,
But the fruitful ears to store
In his garner evermore.