The Earth Made Anew by C. M. Willis

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 23, 1864

The Earth Made Anew.

By C. M. Willis

THE earth made anew! what a beautiful place; When the foul works of sin, our Lord will efface: When oppressions will cease, with all envies and strife, 'Gainst those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

We have mourned over those we held nearest and dear, As we gazed on the coffin, the shroud and the bier; And our hopes had all died, had we not had a view, Of a meeting beyond, in the earth made anew.

While here we are subject to death and decay, Disease takes control, and we soon pass away; Our days full of trial are sinful and few— But death never comes in the earth made anew.

We have gleaned earthly treasures to see them all fade, And our hearts mourned in anguish the ruins they made; But though thorns will spring forth where our fondest hopes grew, They never can pierce in the earth made anew.

While here we grow weary, our hearts sink with fears, The way seems hedged up, we bedew it with tears. Look beyond, look beyond! what a glorified view! God will wipe away tears, in the earth made anew.

No sickness or sorrow, no doubts or despair, No mildew or blight, mars the lovliness there— We will roam those blessed fields with the good and the true And rejoice evermore in the earth made anew.

The eye hath not seen, or the ear ever heard, The joys in reserve for the loved of the Lord; These sayings are just, they are faithful and true, And we'll soon reign with Christ in the earth made anew.

C. M. WILLIS. Charlotte, Mich.