Death and the Grave by Iva M. M. Lawson

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 18, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 41.

Death and the Grave

By Iva M. M. Lawson

DEATH and the grave shall pass away In the dawn of the morn of eternal day, When life and light appear, When, clad in the robes of eternal light, The saints shall arise from their sleep of night To behold evermore the glory bright, Where death has passed with fear.

Death and the grave shall have no place In the earth made new, by heavenly grace, Where the saved of earth shall dwell. No fears shall haunt our dreams of bliss, Or cloud our sky of happiness, Or e'er disturb our peaceful rest— Banished are death and hell.

Death and the grave shall not be known When the saints of light shall wear the crown Of conquerors over sin. When Christ receives at the portal wide His children of earth for whom He died, No fear of death can there abide, When He bids us enter in.

Death and the grave shall have no power To claim our loved, not for one brief hour, Where life and light abide. We need not fear, when our crown is won, The sad good-by, at the setting sun, Of lives so dear, our loved, our own,— Death never there can hide.

Death and the grave are conquered now, Since the God of life their gates passed through, And holds the potent key. He will lead us by His hand of might, Through the gates of pearl to the city bright; And there in the glorious home of light Death nevermore shall be.

Riceville, Tenn.