Shall We Meet?

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 6, 1865

SHALL I meet thee, my brother? in Eden restored, To purity, loveliness, beauty and bloom? Where God and the Lamb shall be ever adored, And joyfulness flourish unsullied by gloom?

Shall I meet thee, my brother, where sorrow and crying, And pain cannot enter, and death shall not be? Not a pang ever felt—no drooping, nor sighing— Where all are immortal, and happy and free.

Oh! say, shall we meet?—or shall one but be there? Shall I be excluded, and you win the prize? Or I and not you, or shall neither appear Triumphant with saints when to glory they rise?

I mean to be there, through the Master's rich grace! My brother, my brother, be this thy resolve! Oh think of the bliss, to behold his bright face, While ages on ages their courses revolve!

Enduring the cross, and despising the shame, My brother, my brother, like Christ let us be! The crown keep in view, and in Jesus' name, The end of the conflict in glory we'll see!