RAISED IN GLORY by S. H. B.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 8, 1874

RAISED IN GLORY.

By S. H. B.

A seed found in the hand of a mummy two thousand years old, when planted, bloomed into a beautiful flower.

Two thousand years ago, a flower Bloomed brightly in a far-off land; Two thousand years ago its seed Was placed within a dead man’s hand.

Before the Saviour came to earth, That man had lived and toiled and died; And even in that far-off time That flower had shed its perfume wide.

Suns rose and set, years came and went; The dead had kept its treasure well. Nations were born and turned to dust, While life was hidden in that shell.

The senseless hand is robbed at last; The seed is buried in the earth; When lo! the life long sleeping there Into a lovely flower bursts forth.

Just such a plant as that which grew, From such a seed when buried low— Just such a flower in Egypt bloomed, And died two thousand years ago.

And will not he who watched the seed, And kept the life within the shell, When those he loves are laid to rest, Watch o’er his buried saints as well?

And will he not from ’neath the sod Cause something glorious to arise? Aye, though it sleeps two thousand years, Yet all that sleeping dust shall rise.

Just such a face as greets you now, Just such a form as here we wear, But yet more glorious far, will rise To meet the Saviour in the air.

Then will I lay me down in peace, When called to leave this vale of tears; For “in my flesh I shall see God,” E’en though I sleep two thousand years.

—S. H. B. in Am. Messenger.