SINAI AND CALVARY

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 5, 1872

SINAI AND CALVARY.

Hark! from Mount Sinai’s flaming brow The long blown trumpet’s quivering sound! Beneath, the sons of Israel bow, With trembling hope, with awe profound.

Jehovah speaks—the lightnings fly, And peals of heavy thunder roll Their awful voices through the sky, While nature shakes from pole to pole.

“I am the Lord”—a thousand peals Still louder sound one vast “Amen!” Louder than when, on bloody wheels, Huge Moloch shakes the Hindoo plain.

I am the Lord—thy God alone; Alone possessed of power divine, Bend not to any other throne, Obey no other law but mine.

That law, Jehovah, oh, how broad! Who can the arduous path pursue? That holy law, O righteous God, Includes thoughts, words, and actions too.

“Curs’d is the man,” I hear it say, That keeps not, while he lives, the whole; For in the last great Judgment day One failing sinks the guilty soul.

But hark! from yonder purple hill Sweet accents float upon my ear— Christ’s last words through my bosom thrill, And gently dissipate my fear.

Dear Jesus! to thy cross I fly, On thy almighty love I fall; Be thou my Advocate on high, My Life, my Righteousness, my All!

—Sel.