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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 31, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 22.

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IMMORTALITY

By N. A. T.

Eternal life! O precious gift to man! O glorious sequel to God's glorious plan! These bodies then shall be forever free From human ills and dread mortality.
These trembling limbs shall youthful vigor gain, This throbbing head forget its throes of pain, These weary eyes, so oft with tears bedewed, Shall gaze in rapture, with their strength renewed.
Like unto his most glorious form Shall Christ these bodies vile conform, When from the power of death and hell His ransomed ones shall safely dwell.
No more with tears and sobs we lay The precious dust in earth away. Our hearts no more with grief are wrung, No requiems o'er dead hopes are sung.
In glowing health and radiant beauty clad, We clasp our darling ones in greeting glad; Again we look into their longing eyes, And smile upon them in our sweet surprise.
O Saviour, only hope of fallen man, To us the promise keep, O come again. Let thy dear presence bring eternal life, And end these scenes of woe and strife.
N. A. T.