T.S. Eliot talks of humankind striving through the centuries in its pursuit of material gains, while true riches are in being at one with God. He further talks of humankind's sin and the Blood of the Lamb—Jesus Christ's Blood— redeeming humankind. He ends the poem saying the True Church will never die.
The theme of this poem is forgiveness, redemption, and the True Christian Church's never-ending existence. Eliot's thoughts on God, Jesus and the.....
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