THE RIVER OF PEACE by Mrs. Lizzie De Armond

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 51.

THE RIVER OF PEACE.

By Mrs. Lizzie De Armond

BY MRS. LIZZIE DE ARMOND.

[An answer to "What Will God Give Us When He Takes the Sea?"]

I ALWAYS think of the restless sea, With its never-ceasing ebb and flow, With its storm-tossed waves and sullen roar, As a type of human life below. When the old world passeth out of sight, And the holy city steppeth down— The beautiful New Jerusalem, White robed and wearing a bridal crown— I do not know, but it seems to me When sorrow and pain and endless strife Shall cease, like the sea, and be no more, And we live the restful other life, That forth from the throne of God will come The river of Peace, whose crystal tide Reflects the glorious Maker's face, And, murmuring softly, far and wide It will flow, and sing the soulful song The redeem'd in heaven chant to-day, The sea is gone, but He knoweth best; We have the river of Peace alway.

—New York Observer.