THE CITY OF GOD by M. E. Durkee

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 24, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 59.

THE CITY OF GOD.

By M. E. Durkee

BY M. E. DURKEE.

THERE'S a city, we're told In the Scriptures of old, Where the gates are not shut by day, For Christ is the light, And there cometh no night— The darkness hath all passed away.

All the sorrow and care, All the ills hard to bear, Are forgotten and left outside— All the envy and strife, All the woes of this life, In that city can never abide.

A new song shall we hear When our Lord shall appear, He for whom we have waited so long. Ope the gates, open wide, That the nation outside Which keepeth the truth and are pure May enter within, Where is no guile nor sin, Praising Him to whom praises belong.