If He Should Come Tomorrow

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 19, 1916

If He Should Come Tomorrow

If I were told that Christ would come tomorrow, That the next sun Which sinks, should bear us past all fear and sorrow, Care and pain, All the fight fought, and all the journey through, What should I do?

I do not think that I should shrink or falter, But just go on Doing my work, nor change, nor seek to alter Aught that is gone; But rise, and move, and love, and smile, and pray, For one more day.

And lying down at night for a last sleeping Say in that ear Which hearkens ever, Lord, within thy keeping, How should I fear? And when tomorrow brings thee nearer still, Do thou thy will.

I might not sleep, for awe; but peaceful, tender, My soul would lie All the night long; and when the morning splendor Flashed o’er the sky, I think that I could smile, could calmly say, It is his day.

— Selected.