Your ShelfYour Projects

THE CROWNED ONES

17%

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 5, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 21.

Read the full edition

THE CROWNED ONES.

Who shall be the crowned ones On that eventful day, When mountains melt, and like a scroll The heavens flee away; When to the awful Judgment-seat The sons of men shall throng, Who, who shall stand among the few To whom the crowns belong?
Who shall harp on harps of gold, When dulcimer and lute, And sweetest tone of ivory keys Shall be forever mute? Beyond earth's grandest music, Where ceaseless praises rise, What lips shall join in singing The songs of paradise?
Who shall wear the raiment white, When purple robes of Tyre, And costly webs from Indian looms, Shall shrivel in the fire? Beyond these fading glories, Beyond this tinted show, Who will stand before the Lord, In raiment white as snow?
Who will be the heirs of Him, Who hideth deep his pearls, In wave-washed caverns of the sea, And all around the world Scatters His gold like starry dust, While, if He only wills, The grasses grow, and cattle graze Upon a thousand hills?
Who from all tongues and peoples, From every land and sea, Will join with Alleluias, That goodly company, That band of saints and martyrs, Who still through flood and flame, Upheld the cross of Jesus; And glorified his name?—Times and Witness.