Desire for Christ by L. D. SANTEE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 18, 1902

Desire for Christ

By L. D. SANTEE

L. D. SANTEE

“I will come again.” John 14:3.

With longing heart, I look to the skies, That shall sometime flame in glory, And I think of the sweet and the glad surprise, As I read the wondrous story Of the second coming of Christ sublime, And the endless life to be given, When we shall exchange the woes of time For the love and bliss of heaven.

The hands of earth wake not the chords That thrill with the hope of heaven, And worldly hearts are cold and hard, And believe not the promise given; The hopes of the world all center here, In the land of the sick and dying, While mine reach up to that pure sphere, Where is known no pain or sighing.

I think of Christ, who shall come again, The desire of all the ages; His coming inspired the prophets’ pen, And shines from the sacred pages. And smiles have beamed on the care-worn face, As the lips have told the story That Christ, with his love and tender grace, Would come in his Father’s glory.

He’ll come with the shining angel host, Arrayed in a wondrous brightness, Come to redeem the loved and lost, And clothe them in robes of whiteness. Every stain has been washed away, And every sin forgiven, And up to the shadowless gates of Will they go with their heaven.