WAITING FOR CHRIST

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 21, 1868

WAITING FOR CHRIST.

We wait for Thee, all-glorious One! We look for thine appearing; We bear thy name, and on the throne We see thy presence cheering. Faith even now Uplifts its brow, And sees the Lord descending; And with him bliss unending.

We wait for thee through days forlorn, In patient self-denial; We know that thou our guilt hast borne Upon thy cross of trial. And well may we Submit with thee To bear the cross and love it, Until thy hand remove it.

We wait for thee; already thou Hast all our hearts’ submission; And though the spirit sees thee now, We long for open vision; When ours shall be Sweet rest with thee, And pure unfading pleasure, And life in endless measure.

We wait for thee with certain hope,— The time will soon be over; With childlike longing we look up, Thy glory to discover. O bliss! to share Thy triumph there, When home with joy and singing, The Lord his saints is bringing.

—From the German of Hiller.