WE SHALL LIVE AGAIN by Mary M. Buckland

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 30, 1882

WE SHALL LIVE AGAIN.

By Mary M. Buckland

BY MARY M. BUCKLAND.

WHEN we are called to pass through the valley That leads to the chambers of death, How we shrink, and start back with terror, And tremble to yield up our breath, And bow to that terrible mandate That we must lie down with the dead, Shut away from the beautiful sunlight, With the earth heaped over our head.

But the Saviour has passed those dark portals And triumphantly risen again. He has conquered the dread king of terrors And purchased salvation for men. Now we know that the grave cannot hold us, Though we by death’s scepter shall fall, We’ll awake in the morning, immortal,— Awake at the Conqueror’s call.

’Tis hope that lights up the dark pathway, There is life beyond the dark grave, If we trust in a crucified Saviour Who, only, has power to save. We know soon the graves will be opened, When ended is death’s cruel reign, For the Life-giving Jesus is coming, Then we know, we shall live again.

Albion, N. Y.