THE GREAT HOME-COMING by C. M. Snow

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 11, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 41.

THE GREAT HOME-COMING

By C. M. Snow

From the cares that grow and the griefs that flow Like a turbulent, restless stream Through the valley of life; from earth's bicker and strife; From the will-o'-the-wisps agleam; From them all and each my arms upreach To the arm of that Infinite Love That leads the way to the shadowless day In the peace of God's home above.

There are hearts that yearn and hopes that burn With a flame that constant glows, To see His face whose boundless grace Such wealth of love bestows. How heaven will ring when they see their King, And clasp His pierce'd hand! When they see the scar of the crown He wore In this sin-enshackled land!

O a day of days and a day of praise Will that glad home-going be, When our feet shall stand on the glowing sand By the great eternal sea! Heaven's harps of gold, attuned of old To sound His praise abroad, We'll strike, and sing, till the heavens ring, The glories of our God.

O heart bowed low with weight of wo; O soul oppressed by care; Look up and on toward the redd'ning dawn; Be brave to do and dare. There's strength for you the whole day through; There's comfort in His grace; Tho seem His word long, long deferred, We soon shall see His face.