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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 7, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 37.

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ANTICIPATION.

By Julia E. Loyd

I know the Christian's final home Will be divinely fair; The highest type of glorious life Will be the dwellers there.
From the word of the Eternal I know our life may be Like the ceaseless, flowing river, Throughout eternity.
The reign of Christ so perfect there! Love's service there so free! The atmosphere of rest and song, And peace, and purity!
To see the blessed faces there, Of those who died of old And those who died in later years All gathered in one fold!
With deepest, purest knowledge, Rich streams of holy lore, They satisfy their longings, They drink forever more!
My thoughts are full of wondering joy At what I know is kept For those who here, in agony, Have toiled, and prayed, and wept.
Be sure, my soul, to gain that home So pure, so wondrous fair! Know well, thy garments must be white, To find acceptance there.
O Lamb divine! O pleading One! O King so soon to come! We praise the grace that takes our hand, To lead us safely home.
East Oakland. JULIA E. LOYD.