A BLESSED VISION by Mrs. Alice M. Avery-Harper

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 5, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 14.

A BLESSED VISION.

By Mrs. Alice M. Avery-Harper

WHILE upward gazing through the heavens blue, A glorious vision broke upon my view. I dreamed I saw a cloudy chariot bright, And angels clothed in garments pure and white, While loudly rang the trump of Gabriel.

And while I looked, earth's trembling pillars shook; Creation quailed; e'en every winding brook And living fountain, from their place removed; As Jesus came to gather His beloved, The wicked prayed for hiding and for death.

The blessed Crucified, the Morning Star, In matchless beauty from those realms afar, In whom we hope, before whom angels bow, In grandeur robed, was swiftly coming now, Mid fearful, fiery flames and glory bright

What rapturous joy, with sweetest comfort fraught, The gladdening vision to His faith- ful brought! And was He coming, Christ, the mighty Son of God, To earth again, where once His footsteps trod, To welcome home His righteous children all?

As I beheld, the mighty moun- tains fled, The islands moved from out the ocean's bed; For He had come, the glorious Prince of Peace, To end earth's sorrows and bring sweet release; To raise the sleeping, and the living change.

Together, then, the sleeping mill- ions sprang From out the dust; their joyful voices sang: "O grave, where now is all thy victory, Since we are raised to immortal- ity? And where is all thy boasted sting, O death?" MRS. ALICE M. AVERY-HARPER. Laingsburg, Mich.