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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 29, 1870

CHRISTIAN COMMUNION.

“Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another,”

Earnest, faithful, toiling pilgrims, Pressing through this desert land, Looking for the “heavenly Canaan,” “Joined in heart and joined in hand;” Can they travel on together, To the same eternal home, Never speaking of their conflicts, And their glorious rest to come?

While around them, cloud and shadow Chase the rays of heavenly light, And the stars of coming morning Linger in the shades of night; Shall the weary-hearted traveler, Watching for the coming day, Never speak a word of comfort To his comrades on the way?

When along the arid wayside, Cooling waters cease to burst, And the low and murky fountains Mock the weary pilgrim’s thirst; Can we never, never listen To the music of those streams, Flowing through those heavenly regions, Where no shadow intervenes?

When the drooping spirit lingers ’Round hope’s consecrated bier, Shall not then our sweet communion Breathe of kind and heavenly cheer? When the gleaming peak of Pisgah Peers above the gathering cloud, Shall not then our cheerful voices Join in praises clear and loud!

In the land to which we’re going, Union is the life of bliss; Why should not we have a foretaste Of its blessedness in this? Yea, those walls of glowing sapphire Glimmer through these mortal skies, Tinge the heavy clouds with sunlight, Chase the darkness from our eyes.