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The Waiting-time

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 28, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 17.

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The Waiting-time

By Charles H. Gabriel

The King and the kingdom are coming, Though long has the waiting-time seemed; And oft to the eye of the watcher, A light in the distance has gleamed, But only to go out in darkness, And leave the heart sad as before; Be patient a little while longer; The waiting-time soon will be o’er.
The crown is a thing of the future, The glory will yet be revealed; The royal gift has not gone by thee, Nor Jesus his promise repealed. Be faithful a little while longer; The night must give place to the day; The King and the kingdom are coming, And for their arrival we pray.
Our prayer is the prayer of the ages, Which Jesus himself taught to men; And thus he is pledged to performance, Without telling all about when. So, praying, and hoping, and working, In faith to each other we cry: “The King and the kingdom are coming! Keep heart; for the Lord draweth nigh.”
— Charles H. Gabriel.