THE LIGHT OF CHRIST'S FACE by Joaquin Miller

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 6, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 39.

THE LIGHT OF CHRIST'S FACE.

By Joaquin Miller

BY JOAQUIN MILLER.

BEHOLD how glorious! Behold The light of Christ's face; and such light! The Moslem, Buddhist, as of old, Gropes helpless on in hopeless night. But lo! where Christ comes, crowned with flame, Ten thousand triumphs in Christ's name.

Elijah's chariot of fire, Chained lightnings harnessed to his car, Jove's thunders bridled by a wire— Call unto nations, "Here we are." Lo! all the world one sea of light, Save where the paynim walks in night.

What more? What sermons like to these, This light of Christ's face, power, speed, In these full rounded centuries, To prove the Christ the Christ indeed? Yea, Christ is life, and Christ is light, And antichrist is death and night.

—S. F. Examiner.