THE TWO PROPHETS by J. B. Dynot

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1880

THE TWO PROPHETS.

By J. B. Dynot

FROM Judah comes a prophet, As incense doth ascend At desecrated Bethel, While royal hands attend.

His testimony ended The Lord attests his word; The haughty king is humbled, The prophet's prayer is heard.

"Come," says the king, "refresh thee;" But the good man replies, "God sent me here a witness, Refreshment he denies.

This said, the prophet turns him, And by another way He homeward toils, though feeble, Jehovah to obey.

In those polluted precincts Abode a prophet old, Whose sons unto their father The circumstances told.

The old apostate prophet Upon his ass did ride And soon his way-worn victim Beneath an oak espied.

"Come home," said he, "and eat thou A fellow-prophet's bread." The hungry man consented, The morrow found him dead.

Ah! has not God appointed And sanctified for man The seventh day—the Sabbath— E'er since the world began?

He will not bid his creatures To do and to refrain; Though earth and heaven perish His statutes shall remain.

Heed not, then, the deceiver, Who to the ground hath trod The truth, and thought to alter The times and laws of God.

J. B. DYNOT. San Rafael, Cal., 1880.