WHAT MAKES ME GLAD by Mrs. L. D. Avery Stuttle

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 14, 1878

WHAT MAKES ME GLAD.

By Mrs. L. D. Avery Stuttle

You ask why my spirit is filled with rejoicing— Why my heart overflows with such rapturous love— At the wondrous news that the Master is coming, In vengeance and might, from the realms above. You ask why I sing in the midst of commotion, When earth’s mighty kingdoms are trembling with fear; Why my spirit is glad, and my bosom rejoices, At the signs that portend that destruction is near.

You ask why it is; and I joyfully answer: Our Lord has commanded that when we shall see The tokens fulfilling that mark his appearing, “Exceedingly glad” all his children should be. I am glad that this earth, with its war and commotion, So long the abode of destruction and blight, Is soon to give place to an Eden of beauty, The home of the ransomed immortal and bright.

I am happy, because, in the near-coming future, The ills that perplex us forever will cease; When commotion and war, with their myriad evils, Give place to the reign of perpetual peace. I am happy, because, in the blessed hereafter, The graves of the righteous shall yield up their trust; And the glorified saints, clad in beauty immortal, With joy shall arise from the moldering dust.

Then let us be glad and rejoice in the prospect, And anchor our faith on His glorious word, And soon the fair mansions of beauty we’ll enter, And evermore rest in the arms of the Lord.

MRS. L. D. AVERY STUTTLE.

Vernon, Mich., Nov. 1.