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SEAL OF CREATION

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 30, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 5.

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SEAL OF CREATION.

By Harry Armstrong

BY HARRY ARMSTRONG.
WELCOME, thou day of sacred rest! We hail thy coming with delight; By thee we are divinely blest, And filled with heavenly beams of light. O perfect seal of God's great plan, Thou hast not changed since worlds began!
Memorial blest and sanctified, We find in thee a heavenly guest,— Our Saviour doth in thee abide, Who is of every good possessed; So thus in thee to man is given A foretaste of the life of heaven.
The holy Life which flows through thee Is full of peace and joy divine; And, by partaking, we shall be Transformed, and in his glory shine; Then shall we see with wond'ring eyes A new and blest creation rise.
May every heart find sweet employ By feasting on the living Word, And only find its chiefest joy In what his presence doth afford; So ever will thy coming prove A deeper measure of his love.
O perfect seal of true design Which bears the image of our Lord, Who out of darkness made light shine, And formed creation by his word, We still can claim thee as our own, Because no change that Word has known.
The Word of God shall stand secure Through every age, in every clime; The keeping of his precepts pure Will fill each soul with joy divine. O perfect seal of God's great plan, Thou hast not changed since worlds began.