p. 1 | THE GREAT QUESTION by Alice Cary

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 24, 1880

THE GREAT QUESTION.

By Alice Cary

"How are the dead raised up, and with what body do they come?" 1 Cor. 15:35.

THE waves they are wildly heaving, And bearing me out from the shore, And I know of the things I am leaving, But not of the things before. O Lord of love, whom the shape of a dove Came down and hovered o'er, Descend to-night with heavenly light, And show me the farther shore.

There is midnight darkness o'er me, And 'tis light, more light, I crave; The billows behind and before me Are gaping, each with a grave; Descend to-night, O Lord of might, Who died our souls to save; Descend to-night, my Lord, my Light, And walk with me on the wave!

My heart is heavy to breaking Because of the mourners' sighs, For they cannot see the awak'ning, Nor the body with which we arise. Thou who for sake of men didst break The awful seal of the tomb, Show them the way into life, I pray, And the body with which we come.

Comfort their pain and pining For the nearly wasted sands, With the many mansions shining In the house not made with hands; And help them by faith to see through death To that brighter and better shore, Where they never shall weep who are fallen asleep, And never be sick any more. —Alice Cary.