THE GOSPEL | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 15, 1877

THE GOSPEL.

The gospel gloomy! It is an anthem from the harps of Heaven; the music of the river of life washing its shores on high, and pouring its cascades upon the earth. Not so cheerful was the song of the morning stars, nor the shouts of the sons of God so joyful. Gushing from the fountains of eternal harmony, it was first heard on earth in a low tone of solemn gladness uttered in Eden by the Lord God himself. This gave the key-note of the gospel song. Patriarchs caught it up and taught it to the generations following. It breathed from the harp of the psalmist, and sung like a clarion from tower to mountain top, as prophets proclaimed the year of Jubilee.

Fresh notes from Heaven have enriched the harmony, as the Lord of hosts and his angels have revealed promises, and called on the suffering children of Zion to be joyful in their King. From bondage and exile, from dens and caves, from bloody fields and fiery stakes and peaceful deathbeds have they answered, in tones that cheered the disconsolate, and made oppressors shake upon their thrones; while sun and moon, and all the stars of light, stormy winds fulfilling his word, the roaring sea and the fullness thereof, mountains and hills, and fruitful fields, and all the trees of the wood, have rejoiced before the Lord, and the coming of his anointed, for the redemption of his people and the glory of his holy name.—The Armory.