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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 14, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 12.

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By A. C. Spicer

The most desirable treasure for man: “The pearl of great price.”
The sweetest thing of earth: The blossom of a meek and quiet spirit, sweetened by the dews of heavenly grace, and made fragrant by divine love.
The loveliest thing of earth: A holy character, with passions all subdued, affections all chastened, emotions all sweetened by grace divine, the countenance all lighted with divine intelligence, and beaming with heavenly love and sympathy, scattering the fragrance of beneficence and mercy all around, and shedding its heavenly rays of good cheer, and pouring its sunbeams of hope on all the sons of men.
The most beautiful temple of earth: “The temple of the Holy Ghost,” swept and garnished by the truth, cleansed and “made white by the blood of the Lamb,” curtained by thewhite drapery of purity and innocence, adorned and beautified by the blooming graces of the Spirit and the ripening fruits of intelligence, and all lighted up and aglow with the presence of the Sun of Righteousness.
The grandest sight for man: The unfolding of the opening “sign of the coming of the Son of man” in the heavens, as it flashes athwart the sky from horizon to horizon, filling the dome above with its lurid flames and revealing all that has been dark of earth beneath; followed by “the revelation of the Lord Jesus in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory,” coming “with all the holy angels” in garments of light, while, as they swiftly speed on tireless wings, the great sound of the trump of God shall be heard resounding o’er earth to wake the sleeping saints, who shall come forth, gathered by his mighty angels, even from the four winds, when the living saints shall be changed—clothed in the white robes of immortality—and all together be caught up to meet the Lord in the air; and when the brightness of his coming shall involve the “destruction of the wicked” and all the dross of earth “in flaming fire.”
A. C. SPICER.