p. 17 | The Breaking Day

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 5, 1902

The Breaking Day

It is so sweet, the way he sang, The man of God, my friend! His theme was high—he warbled forth The coming of the end; And as he sang the end of sin, The end of all our sighs, The end of all reproach and shame, A joy was in his eyes!

“The Lord is almost due,” said he; “His coming draweth nigh! The signs”—he told them one by one— “Have nearly all passed by: These heralds say, with one accord, He cannot long delay: I see! I see! O, look! it is The breaking of the day!”

“The darkness flies! the night at last Gives way to gray of dawn: A moment more, and all our ills Shall evermore be gone!” Thus sang the man, the man of God, With faith-anointed eyes: He saw and understood the times; The Word had made him wise.

And now by day, and oft by night, I hear the song sung still— The end of waiting for the King, The end of every ill; The echo lingers in my thoughts, It never will away: “Lift up your eyes and see! it is The breaking of the day!”

— Christian and Missionary Alliance.