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DAILY NEARER

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 7, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 22.

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DAILY NEARER.

Nearer home, nearer home! However dark and lonely The path through which we roam; This is a journey only; And though we oft, affrighted, Shrink back with sigh and moan, Our camp-fires still are lighted “A day’s march nearer home.”
Nearer home, nearer home! Oh, joy beyond expressing, That over thorn and stone Our feet are homeward pressing; For though we leave behind us Some buds of hope unblown, The sunset still doth find us “A day’s march nearer home.”
Nearer home, nearer home! O many-mansioned dwelling, Beneath thy shining dome, No tides of grief are swelling; And toward thy fadeless glory With eager haste we come, Repeating earth’s brief story, “A day’s march nearer home.”
Nearer home, nearer home! Soon through its open portals The ransomed hosts will come, To welcome us immortals; Then be the path before us With wrecks of roses strewn, Each night, we’ll sing in chorus, “A day’s march nearer home.”