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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 4, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 22.

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JERUSALEM.

By Thomas Hill

JERUSALEM, oh, sacred name, How rich in holy memories! The brutal Roman quenched the flame Which lit her daily sacrifice; But memory still delights to dwell Upon the earlier, purer days, When prophets' words like manna fell, And Zion's courts were filled with praise.
The New Jerusalem! That word Awakes our holiest hope and prayer; The promise seems too long deferred; Yet faith will cast on God its care. The dawning light already gleams, And calls for songs of grateful praise; We hail with joy its earliest beams, And loud our hallelujahs raise.
O city of our God, descend! As John, in holy vision, saw; Our anarchy and darkness end, In light and liberty and law. God and the Lamb shall be our light, From doubt and error making free; God's will to our illumined sight, Shall law and life and rapture be.
—Thomas Hill, D. D., in Independent.