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Pleasure Abiding

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jun 6, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 23.

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Pleasure Abiding

By L. D. Santee

L. D. SANTEE
MULTITUDES seeking an earthly treasure, Pressing and crushing the grapes of sin, Will find but pain in the wine of pleasure, And a heart of sadness the breast within; And the glittering snares of the world, alluring, Are apples of Sodom and grapes of gall. Ah! there's no joy on this earth, enduring, Only to come when the Lord shall call;
Only to look with eyes anointed, For the wondrous gladness so soon to be; Only to wait for the time appointed, When Christ shall come and the soul be free; Only to wait till our loved ones breathless, Waken to beauty when God shall call; Only to wait for the life all deathless That comes to the ransomed, each and all;
Only to come with prayers most fervent, Working for Jesus as seasons fly, Laboring earnest, a faithful servant, Hoping reward in the by and-by. Ah! there's a joy beyond all telling, Waiting for us on the farther shore. Ah! there's a rapture, the bosom swelling, To know that the gladness is evermore.
Moline, Ill.