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WHERE THEY STAND

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 15, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 42.

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WHERE THEY STAND.

By James I. Vance

The centuries are on the side of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes. They side with the cross of Christ and the throne of God. The hours may depress, but the centuries are full of cheer. The struggles of faith will end in endless victory. The long night will slip into dawn. The centuries will ring eternity in upon time and announce immortality. The long pilgrimage will end, the dire siege will lift and trial be over. The hours may say, “Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” but the centuries proclaim, “This mortal shall put on immortality.” Tired, footsore, wayworn, and faint, the summit of achievement shall be reached at last, and faith’s journey end in welcome to the weary.—James I. Vance, D.D.