WATCH by Sel. | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 16, 1875

WATCH

By Sel.

Wake, brethren, up, arouse from sleep, Your festal robes prepare, The summons to the marriage feast, Is ringing on the air. The first sound of Christ’s chariot wheels We strain our ears to catch, All signs portend the end is near, And Christ says, “Therefore watch!”

To such as mock—“Christ come again?” Sufficient this reply— ’Tis likelier he should come to reign, Than that he came to die. The unbelief in Noah’s days Well does the present match, Which is a sign of last decline, And Christ says, “Therefore watch!”

The war-fiend’s loose! and carnage wrought— Oh! who can tell the sum! Man’s godless, earthly empires reel, And “perilous times” have come. The truth’s denied, and lies believed That wicked spirits hatch— A given sign of “the last time,” And Christ says, “Therefore watch!”

“In such an hour as ye think not”— Ah, me! who thinks at all, Of aught but self and worldly gain Or heeds the Master’s call? He’s near at hand, he’s at the door, His hand is on the latch, And “our redemption draweth nigh”— Watch therefore, Christian, watch. —Sel.