COMFORTING WORDS by L. E. Millne

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 6, 1868

COMFORTING WORDS.

By L. E. Millne

“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep.” How precious, how consoling the thought that though our loved ones are fallen asleep in Christ, death, that cruel enemy, shall not always have dominion over them. The cold and silent grave shall hide their beautiful forms from our sight “only a little while longer;” “For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.” “Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.” Oh! blessed consolation to the weeping mourner! What a solace to the bleeding heart! Oh! praise the Lord! the glorious resurrection is near. They shall rise from their dusty beds, clothed with immortality. “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so be ever with the Lord.” Oh, hasten, dear Lord, thine appearing! Bring the long-looked for day that shall end our tears and sorrows. Take me to “that blessed home, where it is one bright summer, always bland,” and storms do never come. To that bright land where the inhabitants shall “never say, I am sick.”

“Let faith exalt her joyful voice, And now in triumph sing, O grave, where is thy victory, And where, O death, thy sting.”

L. E. MILLNE.

Shabbona, Ill., June 24.