Joy in Heaven by Delwin Rees Buckner

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 8, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 14.

Joy in Heaven

By Delwin Rees Buckner

Delwin Rees Buckner

There's joy among the heavenly hosts to-day In New Jerusalem's straight streets of gold, For, lo, a sinner lost has sought the fold, One who had wandered countless leagues astray O'er jagged crags, hid by a cloak of gray, Where winter winds howl ever, chill and cold, And hungry beasts of prey prowl, bad and bold, And thorny thistles strew the weary way. Harp music echoes 'mid the city spires, While glad hosannas herald the new birth To truth and light of him, nigh dead in doubt And night, meanwhile each angel guide inquires Who will be hastened down to distant earth To lead the weak, bruised, bleeding one about.