BEYOND THE GRAVE by G. E. Smith

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 15, 1880

BEYOND THE GRAVE.

By G. E. Smith

WHAT man can doubt there is a God? Or who can think without a pain, When friends are laid beneath the sod, That we shall see them ne'er again?

Indeed, the parting must be drear, And doubly sad the heavy heart, If not a ray of hope can cheer When dearest friends this life depart.

And well the mourner's tears may fall, If death shall never more release The loved ones who await the call Of Christ, the mighty Prince of Peace.

Our lives at best are here so brief, And oft with sorrow so forlorn, That death is almost a relief, In view of resurrection morn.

No mortal man can fully sense The bliss that waits us o'er the wave, But still we hope for recompense— Eternal life beyond the grave.

Oakland, Cal. G. E. SMITH.