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THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 23, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 21.

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THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY.

Day of rapture, past comparing! Done, the desert's long wayfaring! Past the Jordan, banners bearing!
On sweet Salem fondly gazing— Bulwarks, towers, and walls amazing— Burst, O heart, with song and praising!
Oh! how passing fair she lieth, City where no sufferer sigheth, In whose homes no child e'er crieth; No one wearieth, no one dieth.
Oh! ecstatic, swift transition! From the waste to fields Elysian! Up from faith to perfect vision!
Doubt is slain, and vanquished sighing! Chained, Captivity is lying! Tyrant Death himself is dying!
Sword and mail from strife laborious, Gleaming in the pageant glorious, Pass the jeweled gates victorious!
Kings and priests from every nation, Celebrate Christ’s exaltation; Hail him, Captain of salvation!
He, by death and hell once wounded, Now by loyal hosts surrounded Hears the triumph-anthem sounded.
Million-voiced the mighty chorus: Worthy Jesus to reign o'er us! He hath paid the ransom for us! He doth endless life restore us!
Oh! thou song of bliss eternal! Oh! thou land forever vernal! Oh! thou day of light supernal!
As the hart, athirst and panting, So our weary souls are fainting, Quick to taste thy joys enchanting.
Sound, O trump, thy note of thunder! Rend the clouds of night asunder! Bring the day of blissful wonder!
—Illustrated Christian Weekly.