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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 4, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 5.

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Waiting

By Ella M. Robinson

ELLA M. ROBINSON
ARE you waiting, idly waiting For your Master to return, While in indolence and pleasure His unfinished work you spurn?
Waiting, only idly waiting, While vast millions grope in night, And your candle burns but dimly In a land of gospel light?
Waiting with your golden treasure Stored so carefully away? Can it buy one soul’s salvation In God’s awful judgment-day?
For the “latter rain” art waiting? See, the showers are falling fast, And the gospel fields are ripening— Soon the harvest will be past.
Will you stand before your Master With no sheaves your arms to fill? When he comes, O, will he find you Waiting, idly waiting still?
He alone who sows in sorrow, He alone who sows in tears, To the harvest feast is welcomed When our coming Lord appears.
Sanitarium, Cal.