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The Restitution

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 3, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 2.

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The Restitution.

By L. D. Santee

Wavering shadows o’er the land are chasing, Over fountain, lawn, and shrub, and tree, While the winds, in throbbing diapason, Are chanting soft their wondrous litany.
Nature, in her anthems of rejoicing, Hears responses from the rolling sea, And the thunders of his waves seem voicings Of a coming glory yet to be.
And the earth, now bowed by sin’s sad story, Now a place of sorrow, sin, and tears, Soon shall waken to a scene of glory, That shall open when the Lord appears.
When night’s curtain all the earth is folding, And heaven is bright with many a throbbing star, All whispering peace to every eye beholding, Shedding their silvery radiance from afar,
The azure dome above the worn earth bending Seems to whisper of eternal years, While each bright star, upon its orbit tending, Is hymning to the music of the spheres.
Prophet eyes beheld a scene of glory, A ransomed earth beneath a smiling heaven, And prophet’s pen records the wondrous story, Jehovah reconciled and man forgiven.
When peace shall fill the earth like ocean waters, And war’s wild desolating reign is o’er, When the blood-washed throng of Adam’s sons and daughters Shall enter Paradise to roam no more. L. D. SANTEE.