NEARING THE CLOSE by Eugene B. Willard

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 7, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 48.

NEARING THE CLOSE.

By Eugene B. Willard

"A little while, but ah! how long it seems! My Jesus, come; Surpass the rapture of my sweetest dreams, And take me home."

The day of the Lord will surely come. Everything in this old world demonstrates that fact. The appointed hour makes haste. The crisis impends. Surely, these are "perilous times." This is an age of startling revolutions and changes in the state of empires and nations. Society everywhere is convulsed—in places almost overturned. But we are nearing the close. Very soon we shall hear the cry, "It is finished," and the time will have come for the saints to inherit the new country, there to remain in perfect bliss forever and ever.

"O! the transporting, rapturous scene, That rises to our sight— Sweet fields arrayed in living green, And rivers of delight."

Only a little while, beloved, and this mortal will put on immortality, and victory, eternal victory, shall be. O, how the song will echo and re-echo through the endless ages of eternity!

Revere, Mass. EUGENE B. WILLARD.