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TIME IS NOT LONG

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 13, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 20.

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TIME IS NOT LONG.

Lift up your glad voices, Ye sons of the Bridegroom; For to the glad anthem Re-echoes the song: From hill tops and valleys, His children He'll gather, In robes that are brilliant, For time is not long.
Yes, the fig-tree has budded, The tempest is raging; The sea in its agony Responds to the song. Come wars and commotion, And stars leave their orbits, Proclaim in loud accents, That time is not long.
Yes, Rome as a widow, In robes of a harlot, In the bold line of prophecy, Spurns at the song; That her days are near ended, To sink in the ocean; Proclaims in the prospect, That time is not long.
Let the watchman then rally, From ocean to ocean, And proclaim the last message Of God at his call: And the true church of Christ, Evade all commotion, Since Jesus is coming, And time is not long.
Then wake up to duty, Ye sons of the Bridegroom, By faith in your Saviour, You never can fall; And trust in his grace, For he ne'er will forsake you, For quickly he'll come, And time is not long.
Then hold up the standard Of a soon-coming Saviour, Proclaim the glad news In sermon and song; For Jesus is coming, His summoned to gather, In the bright robes of glory, For time is not long.
O God, help thy children To trust in thy mercy, And ever stand firm Till eternity's dawn; For soon he will say That your work is all ended, And then you'll not murmur That time is not long.