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MUST IT ALWAYS BE?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 11.

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MUST IT ALWAYS BE?

By M. B.

AND must it be ever so? Shall the sun roll round and round forever, and always look down upon a race of discontented, dying mortals? Shall walls of despair forever ascend from dens of suffering humanity? No, no. “The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain.” “Behold, I make all things new.” “We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth.”
Glorious promises! They cause the heart to leap for joy, the very thought is bliss; what, then, must be the reality? Oh, then the earth shall bloom in its Eden beauty, in all the loveliness of its early creation, when the saints of God shall possess the land, and dwell in the light of his glory forever and ever. “O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction.” No longer a dream, nor yet a grand possibility, but a glorious reality.
“Oh, who has not yearned for the glory, The happiness, and the repose Of a land never darkened by shadows, Of a home never clouded with woes?”
“And who, when the heart has grown weary Of saying farewell to loved friends, Has not longed for a home with the dear ones, Where parting and sorrowing ends?”
M. B.