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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 4, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 1.

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Clothed Upon

By Eliza H. Morton

By ELIZA H. MORTON
’TIS not the costly raiment of the world God’s children crave,—the jewels and the pearls, The gold, the ermine, and the tossing plumes; But rather that adorning of the soul — That perfect robe of righteousness — which makes Us one with God. And how may we be clad In that blest vesture, undefiled? It will Not cover sin. The character of Christ Must woven be in woof and warp of mind And brain, and stamped upon the muscles and The nerves. Christ kept His Father’s law, and so Should we. Our hearts should beat with His great heart, His will be ours. Then He will give the power To live His own sweet life, and so shall we Be clothed upon with linen clean and white — The wedding garment furnished by the King.
By ministration of the Spirit’s power, The work of God on earth will onward sweep, Until the world is warned, and Jesus comes. And when, at length, the last great day shall dawn, The trumpet sound, the sleeping dead be raised, The bodies of the saints will be transformed, Or “clothed upon” with houses from above, With tabernacles from the Lord, “not made with hands, Eternal in the heavens.” ’Tis then, e’en then, The natural and the earthly disappear, And incorruption takes the place of that Which now is mortal, subject to decay. “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is Thy victory?” The victory must come Through Christ. To Him be praise forevermore. Let all the universe proclaim His praise.