ADVENT HYMN by Rev. W. R. Huntington

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 21, 1882

ADVENT HYMN.

By Rev. W. R. Huntington

Lord of the darkness and the day, To thee thy waiting people pray; Perplexed, assaulted, hard-beset, Faithful we grasp thy promise yet.

Dimly our homesick eyes descry The signs that fleck earth's sunset sky; But, while we strive to read aright, The evening deepens into night.

Come, Prince of Life! Come, even so As thou from Olivet didst go; Make good the word, for honor's sake, The twain in white apparel spake.

With cleansing fire our work to try, Discerner of the heart, draw nigh! Swing east, swing west thy winnowing fan, Till judgment thoroughly search out man.

So melts at last the twilight gray; So broadens luminous the day When, stern to punish, swift to bless, A King shall reign in righteousness.

—Rev. W. R. Huntington.