The Heavenly Vision by L. D. Santee

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · May 30, 1912

The Heavenly Vision

By L. D. Santee

"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth." Rev. 21 : 1.

As I studied my well-loved Bible, I read a wondrous thing In the book of the Revelation, One night in the early spring; I read of celestial faces, And hearts that were pure and true, And, moving through endless spaces, An earth and a heaven "new."

Again I read, and its pages This wondrous message bore, That in all of the coming ages There should be death no more; That sorrows should all be banished, And the grief of all the years; That the ache of the heart is vanished, And no cheek should be wet with tears;

That the sadness, and the grieving, The disappointed pain, The saints of the Lord are leaving, Never to feel again: But instead, as told in its pages, Is the glorious thrill and thought Of a home foretold by the sages, That the hand of God hath wrought.

To the host redeemed it is given To join in the glad new song Sung on the shores of heaven By the great unnumbered throng; And I prayed that the Lord would grant me By the tree of life to sing, As I studied my well-loved Bible One night in the early spring.

Moline, Ill.