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THE BOLTED DOOR

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 18, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 8.

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THE BOLTED DOOR.

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock. If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” Rev. 3:20.
God is knocking, Ever knocking, At the heart’s thrice-bolted door, Which we’re locking, Ever locking, As we oft have done before, And we hear, yet hearing, heed not, While we faster bolt the door.
He is calling, Ever calling, In a soft and gentle tone, To the fallen, And the falling, To the weary and the lone, Still they answer not the summons, Till the Spirit-voice has flown.
He’s entreating, E’er entreating, By his mercy, by his care, Knocking, knocking, And repeating, Calling, calling, this his prayer: “Let me enter!” Hear it, mortal, Open wide the sin-locked portal. Hear it, mortal, open quickly, God is waiting at the door.
—Watchman and Reflector.