Longing for the Better Land
Sister L. Taber writes from Homer, Mich.: "We are surrounded with opposers to the truth, without any of like precious faith within fifteen miles of us, but we are trying to walk in the straight and narrow way that Jesus has trod before us, and if we turn not aside, but hold out faithful we expect ere long to reach the goodly land, where all is love, joy and peace, where there will be perfect happiness, unalloyed by any of the sorrows, temptations or sins which surround us here. How joyful to meditate upon that happy land, and the society that will be found there. Then indeed will be fulness of joy, and pleasures for evermore. Oh how trifling do the pleasures of earth appear compared with the rich reward which awaits the faithful. "‘Let others seek earthly possessions,
And lay up their treasures below,
I have heard of a land that is better,
And to seek it with ardor I'll go;
I have heard of a world robed in glory,
And freed from temptation and care,
Where sickness and death may not enter,
And I long, O I long to be there.’"