p. 1 | SABBATH THOUGHTS by C. L. Gregory

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 18, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 20.

SABBATH THOUGHTS.

By C. L. Gregory

[The following poetry from the Cottage Testament though composed for the first-day of the week is most excellent when correctly applied to the Sabbath of the Lord. C. L. GREGORY.]

This is the day of rest!—let earth retire And leave my thoughts, eternal God, to thee, Let my dull heart, this sacred morning be, Warm’d by thy grace and touched with heavenly fire.

Softly the Sabbath-bell is heard afar, Like mercy’s summons to a feast of love ;— On to the house of prayer the suppliants move, To tell their wants to him whose sons they are.

Vain is the sculptur’d roof—the long-drawn aisle— Vain music’s tone, and vain the silken vest ; That worshipper, and he alone, is blest, On whose rapt soul the Spirit deigns to smile.

Yet do the Sabbath’s joys but dimly show The bliss of that bright world to which we hope to go.