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If Christ Should Come To-Night

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 15, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 33.

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If Christ Should Come To-Night

By Pearl Waggoner

PEARL WAGGONER
If you could know that Jesus would appear Before another morn should give its light, O, would your heart be filled with joy, or fear,— If you could know that he would come to-night?
The things you’d do, the words that you would say, Perchance the letter you had thought to write, How many plans would have to change to-day If you were sure that Christ would come to-night?
How many acts would then remain undone? How many wrongs would have to be made right, If you should meet him ere another sun, And knew for sure that he would come to-night?
How many things would you find time for then, Now crowded out or else forgotten quite,— The kindly deed, the hour of prayer again? Would aught be different, should he come to-night?
Some day that dawns will mark all time as past; Then may we keep our lamps all trimmed and bright. O, may we live each day as ’twere the last, And ready be if Christ should come to-night!
Hinsdale, Ill.