We Shall Be Like Him

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 10, 1878

"We Shall Be Like Him."

We shall be like him, oh, beautiful thought! Well may our souls with rapture be wrought. After the sorrows, the woe, and the tears, We shall be like him when Jesus appears.

After the conflict in peace to sit down, After the cross to be wreathed with the crown, After the dust and the soil of the way, With him and like him forever to stay.

Never again shall the throbbing head ache, Never again shall the beating heart break, Never the task drop from wearying hands, Nor the feet ever fail in the brightest of lands.

Never shall sin with the trail of its shame, Shadow love's sunlight, nor chill its clear flame; Saviour, oft grieved in the house of thy friends, Ne'er will we wound thee when earth's frail life ends.

Death! this thought does away with thy sting, Makes us triumphant to meet thee and sing "Glory to God!" When the Jordan is passed We shall go home and be like him at last.

Master, alas! thee we've often denied— When the world scorned we have shrunk from thy side; Yet, blessed Jesus, thou knowest thy love. Pardon and help us with grace from above.

When thou appearest, oh, rapturous thought! Well may our souls into rapture be wrought; We shall be like thee when time is all o'er, Wound thee, deny thee, offend thee no more.