Almost Home | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1873

Almost Home.

How it cheers the wayworn and weary pilgrim to know we are almost home. Yes, home, sweet home. It sounds like music to the ear of those that have been pilgrims and strangers upon the earth, and have no abiding city here, but seek one to come. When almost fainting and faltering by the way, the thought of home gives a new engagedness to press our way onward. When surrounded by trials and temptations, and friends forsake, and everything looks dark and drear, then it cheers the heart to know that the long dark night of sadness is almost passed; that soon the morn of eternity will dawn. Then, sighing and sadness will flee away. Dear pilgrim—

“Why that look of sadness? Why that downcast eye? Can no thought of gladness Lift thy soul on high?”

Cheer up; a few more sighs, a few more tears, then all will be ended. Soon we shall land on the fair banks of deliverance in our Eden home. Arouse! arouse! thou sleeping ones. Probation is almost ended. The last sands of time are almost run. Soon we shall hear it said—“Child, thy Father calls, come home.”—Sel.