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THE GREAT WONDER

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 5.

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THE GREAT WONDER.

By Sel.

A grave-bound soul without concern Though well he knows his crumbling clay May feed another summer’s worm, While waiting for the fearful day!
A truth-taught soul without concern, On whom all words of grace are lost, When truth shall curse the heedless one Mid woes his heedlessness has cost!
A woe-doomed soul without concern, Who reads “eternal” on his fate, And sees his lot with those who turn Their eyes in pain to hell’s grim gate!
A sinful soul without concern, Beneath the glance of that pure eye, Which kindles hot with wrath divine At sign of sin in farthest sky!
A prayerless soul without concern Since God has said, “I will be sought And found by those who praying come To me”—as all creation ought!
A Christless soul without concern When Christ by all may now be found, And at one sinner’s sure return God’s throne itself with joy resound!
The earth may rear her wonders seven By skill of man most strangely done, But stranger far to wiser Heaven This seven-sided wonder, one!
—Sel.