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Faith’s Summer Land

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 10, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 38.

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Faith’s Summer Land

By Samuel J. Townsend

SAMUEL J. TOWNSEND
I HAVE gleaned a glimpse of glory In the Southern sunset skies, On the blue that bends above me I have seen it pictured there; Fitting foreword for the story I shall read in paradise, With the loved and those that love me In that summer land so fair.
I have gleaned that glory gleaming O’er the Southern sunset sea, In the starry depths below me And the glowing heights above; And my raptured soul is dreaming Of the grandeur yet to be, And the ransomed that shall know me, In that summer land of love.
As I view the sunset glory By the Master Artist limned, And behold the splendor blazing In the star-lit depth and sky, Shines anew redemption’s story, And mine eyes with tears are dimmed, As I lift my soul in praising To that summer land on high.
There are heights and depths of pleasure In the summer lands of earth, Yet full many a thorn of sadness Bear the blighted bowers of time. And angelic reed shall measure Earthly joys of fleeting worth, With the soul’s first glimpse of gladness In faith’s summer land sublime.
Orlando, Fla.