STAR OF THE EAST by Faith and Works

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Oct 2, 1900

STAR OF THE EAST.

By Faith and Works

Ho, SAILOR! is the path grown dark? “ Yes, dark as dark may be— Dark as the glimmer of my bark Upon a moonless sea.” Lo, streaming from the glooms above, Across the dusky bar, Fair token of forgetless Love, Beameth the Morning Star!

Belated pilgrim, toiling on, Dost hapless seek the way? “Yea, heart be spent and courage gone, I wait in vain the day.” See, trembling o’er yon mountain height That frowneth from afar, Through the dim silences of night Breaketh the Morning Star!

And thou, beclouded in the fight, The mists that roll and rise, That shroud awhile the nearer sight,— But wash thy lifted eyes To catch the clearer, and more sure, Through shadow-gates ajar, Glad promise for the strong and pure— The calm, sweet Morning Star!

For ye that battle with the dark, And ye that stem the flood, And ye that, striving, miss the mark, Yet do resist to blood; For ye that stand as once he stood, The morning-bands unbar— The beauty of the sons of God Is burning in the Star!

Oh, brightness that our souls allure! Oh, whiteness of yon train! Who shall endure—what soul so pure— Such guerdon to attain? Lo, One who shineth as the sun, Whose ways the lightnings are, Unto his own alone makes known The vision of the Star!

—Faith and Works.