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FOREVER WITH THE LORD

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 14, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 35.

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FOREVER WITH THE LORD.

1 Thess. 4:17.

O SWEET home-echo on the pilgrim’s way! Thrice welcome message from a land of light; As through a clouded sky the moonbeams stray, So on Eternity’s deep-shrouded night Streams a mild radiance from that cheering word, “So shall we be forever with the Lord.”
At home with Jesus! Him who went before, For his own people mansions to prepare; The soul’s deep longings stilled, its conflicts o’er, All rest in blessedness with Jesus there; What home like this can the wide earth afford? “So shall we be forever with the Lord.”
With him all gathered! To that blessed home, Through all its windings, still the pathway tends; While ever and anon bright glimpses come Of that fair city where the journey ends, Where all of bliss is centered in one word,— “So shall we be forever with the Lord.”
Here kindred hearts are severed far and wide By many a weary mile of land and sea, Or life’s all-varied cares and paths divide; But yet a joyful gathering shall be— The broken links repaired, the lost restored, “So shall we be forever with the Lord.”
O precious promise, mercifully given! Well may it hush the wail of earthly woe; O’er the dark passage to the gates of Heaven, The light of hope and resurrection throw. Thanks for the precious, life-inspiring word— “So shall we be forever with the Lord.” —Sel.