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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 22, 1859

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 14, No. 18.

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ALMOST HOME.

By S. C. Wellcome

O how pleasing the thought to the weary pilgrim who has been following his Master through sorrow and affliction, that he is almost home! that a few more days of trials and conflict here, and the Master who has gone on before shall return to take home his little flock to his Father's house! Or if he is not permitted to be alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, but must be laid away in the tomb, he rejoices in the hope that although he may moulder back to dust, Jesus soon will come and raise the righteous dead to life and immortality. Yes, praise God for the poor pilgrim's hope of a glorious resurrection beyond the grave! And this hope he has, for he is dead to the world and his life is hid with Christ in God, and when he appears, he will appear also with him in glory.
Then why may not his heart leap for joy at the thought of his pilgrimage's being almost ended? While here he is continually tempted to sin; he has to struggle along through weakness, for he is a fallen being, a sinner saved by grace; he has a continual warfare to fight with the enemy of souls, and can only overcome through the grace given him by God. This indeed is all-sufficient, yet he is so prone to wander that he must watch and pray continually lest he be led from the narrow way.
And then again his poor body is often diseased and filled with pain. Extreme suffering has a tendency to weaken the powers of the mind, and he feels that this world is full of affliction and disappointments caused by the fall, and therefore it is not his home; that here he has no continuing city, but he seeks one to come. He has an earnest of his inheritance, and he looks forward with fond anticipation to the time when the purchased possession shall be redeemed and Paradise restored, Jesus crowned King, and the earth wherein dwelleth righteousness shall be filled with the praises of God. Then sickness and sorrow shall have passed away; the pilgrims arrayed in robes of white shall walk the golden streets of the New Jerusalem. The long looked-for home is reached at last.
S. C. WELLCOME.
Almond, Wis.