TRUTH WILL ENDURE by R. F. COTTRELL

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 9, 1869

TRUTH WILL ENDURE.

By R. F. COTTRELL

They that do evil ever hate the light, In darkness they their evil deeds would hide; But he that doeth truth, ’tis his delight To do such deeds as will the light abide. John iii, 20, 21.

The holy law of God is true entire; Each of its precepts was distinctly heard, When God’s own voice proceeded from the fire, And trembling Sinai to its base was stirred. Ps. cxix, 142, 151; Neh. ix, 13; Ex. xix.

The doers of that law shall stand the test, When that same voice both earth and heaven shall shake, The Sabbath law as well as all the rest Survives the ordeal of the burning lake. Rom. ii, 12–16; Ps. xcvi, 13; Heb. xii, 26.

That fire that shall dissolve this sin-cursed earth, In which all liars shall their portion take— The throes preceding nature’s second birth— In God’s eternal law no change shall make. 2 Pet. iii, 7–13; Rev. xx, 9; xxi, 8.

Long as the renovated earth shall stand, Each of its sacred precepts shall endure; From week to week throughout that holy land, All flesh immortal offer worship pure. 2 Pet. iii, 13; Isa. lxv, 17; lxvi, 22, 23.

Ye who one precept of God’s law evade, Changing the truth of God into a lie; Beware! lest thou a liar shalt be made, And with the liar shalt be doomed to die. Dan. vii, 25; viii, 12; Rom. i, 25.

But ye who love the truth, that truth shall be Your shield and buckler in the evil day; The pearly gates swung open ye shall see, Enter and reign with Zion’s King for aye. Ps. xci, 4; Isa. xxvi, 2; Rev. xxii, 14, 15.

R. F. COTTRELL.