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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 10, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 37.

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CALVARY

By T. Whittle

T. WHITTLE.
(Brisbane, Australia.)
How strange and solemn are the scenes On Calvary displayed; How deep and sacred are the themes By them to man conveyed.
From Sinai’s majestic peak, Deep, threatening thunders roll; They all with awful voices speak Fear to the guilty soul.
But there on Calvary, behold The vengeful lightning fall; True to His covenant of old, Christ bears the sins of all.
There in the sinner’s place He stands, Though pure and sinless He, Nailed to the cross with outstretched hands, The soul’s deep need, the plea.
What wondrous grace is there revealed! What blessings there bestowed, Since the first sinful soul was healed, And lost its heavy load!
There Love, in glorious sacrifice, Its consummation wrought, Higher than human mind could rise, Beyond angelic thought.
And shall that token from on high, That pledge, be given in vain? Will man with cold, unfeeling eye, Pass by in proud disdain?
Nay! let the earth, and sea, and sky, The glorious heavens above, And all that dwell within them vie, Confessing Jesus’ love.
Let Jesus’ name exalted be: Earth has no sweeter sound; Heaven’s deepest, richest harmony, In Jesus’ name is found.