The Man in the Glory

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 15, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 27.

The Man in the Glory

“The Man Christ Jesus.” I Tim. 2:5

There's a Man in the glory! I know very well. I have known Him for years, and His goodness can tell. One day in His mercy He knocked at my door, And, seeking admission, knocked many times o'er; But when I went to Him, and stood face to face, And listened a while to His story of grace,— How He suffered for sinners, and put away sin,— I heartily, thankfully welcomed Him in.

We have lived on together a number of years, And that's why I have neither doubtings nor fears, For my sins are all hid in the depths of the sea, They were carried down there by the Man on the tree.

I am often surprised why the lip should be curled, When I speak of my Lord to the man of the world, And notice with sorrow his look of disdain, When I tell him that Jesus is coming again, He seems so content with his houses and gold, While despising the ark like the people of old; And yet at His coming, I'm sure he would flee Like the man in the garden, who ate of the tree.

A stranger to Jesus? What? do you not know He is washing poor sinners much whiter than snow? Have you lived in a land where the Bible's unknown, That you don't know the Man who is now on the throne? Ah! did you but know half His beauty and power, You would not be a stranger another half-hour. I have known Him so long that I'm able to say, The very worst sinner He'll not turn away. The question of sin, I adoringly see, The Man in the glory has settled for me, And as to my footsteps, whatever the scene, The Man in the glory is keeping me clean; And therefore I'm singing, from morning to night, The Man in the glory is all my delight. —Anon.