GOD'S JEWELS by Sel.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 16, 1874

GOD'S JEWELS.

By Sel.

As 'mid the rocks and sands of earth, The costly diamonds lie; As gold is sprinkled through the depths, Unseen by human eye; As pearls lie gleamless in their caves Beneath the restless sea; As earth's deep vaults of wealth are hid For ages yet to be— So sleep the jewels of God's grace, The diamonds of his love, Amid earth's darkness and its gloom, Till raised to joy above.

They dazzle not in crowded streets, Nor gleam in gilded halls; They do not give their brightest rays Within high palace walls; We do not see on beauty's brow Their mystic flash always, Nor do they wake in hearts of men Their words of earnest praise; But oft in lowly homes they shine With softest brilliancy, Where God's own Spirit deigns to dwell, And guards them lovingly.

What though they gleam unseen below, Or lie in slumbering worth? An Eye unseen beholds them all, And loves his gems of earth. Not always, 'mid the wreck of time, Shall God's own jewels lie; His own right hand shall gather them, To grace his throne on high. There, where the Godhead's brightest rays Fall with effulgent beam, They shall the radiance evermore Reflect with loveliest gleam.

Ah! yes; these toils, these prayers, these tears, These conflicts of the soul, These stern and angry storms of life, That o'er the spirit roll, Shall but refine and polish well Each fond and lovely gem, And mold and fashion it aright, For Christ's own diadem. And he shall tell his holy ones How, in earth's gloomy night,— He hastened to its awful wreck, And seized his jewels bright.

—Sel.