AN INQUIRY by J. P. Lewis

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 10, 1874

AN INQUIRY.

By J. P. Lewis

TUNE.—“Do They Miss Me at Home?”

Have you heard how on Calvary's mountain, A Lamb for poor sinners was slain? Did you know that in Judah a fountain Was opened to cleanse from all sin?

Have you heard of the glad proclamation? Have you seen the bright banners unfurled? Have you seen the blest car of salvation, In majesty move through the world?

Did you know that the Saviour had risen, First fruits unto God from the dead? Did you know that the grave was a prison? Man enters its portals with dread.

Did you know that the voice of God's thunder Will shake the broad plains of the earth? The prison-house doors burst asunder, That the just might receive their new birth?

Did you know that the Saviour's appearing, As promised, would surely take place? Have you felt that the goal we are nearing Would soon tell the doom of our race?

Have you heard the deep groans of creation? Have you heard any rumors of war? Is nation now striving with nation? Oh! what are the tidings afar?

Has your heart ever melted with pity, Or sighed at humanity's woes? Have you told dying souls of that city, Which Heaven one day will disclose?

Have you told them of life's flowing river, That every disease can destroy? Have you told them they might live forever, In a world of ineffable joy?

If you've not thought of these, fellow-mortals, Why do you not wake and prepare, When Heaven shall open its portals A crown of bright glory to share?

When the conqueror's palm shall be given, And the story of triumph be told, May we enter the kingdom of Heaven, And walk the broad streets of pure gold. —J. P. Lewis.