Nearing Home by J. W. Taylor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Oct 10, 1865

Nearing Home.

By J. W. Taylor

Yes, dear brethren and sisters, we are nearing home. The wheels of time are rolling on with the celerity of the lightning flash, and every revolution brings us one day nearer our Eden home. Soon we shall be there. Oh, what a stupendous thought! Immortality secured in the paradise of God! No more aches and pains; no more sighs and tears; no, nothing there to mar the happiness of God's dear saints in the bright world to come. The tree of life, lost by Adam's fall, once more blooms on Eden's aromatic plains. The forest songsters tune their warbling notes without a fear of harm, and the (now) ferocious beasts lie submissive at the infant's feet.

The glorified saints, redeemed from hades' dark gloom, participate in the full fruition of their hope, while sparkling diadems deck their immortal brows.

And can it be that we are within a few brief years of that blissful home? Yes, the clarion notes of the last loud trump may break the silent watches of to-morrow's night. And are we prepared for that event? Have we done our duty in warning our fellow-men? If not, let us be up and doing, that we may meet the approbating smile of Him who knows the secrets of our hearts, when he shall come to render unto every man according as his deeds shall be.

The wheels of time are rolling on, The day is drawing near, When Israel's King, God's royal Son, In glory shall appear; And those who bravely meet the strife, And to the end endure, Shall gain a crown of endless life, Which is "in Christ secure." But those who do despise his name, Or shun the cross to bear, Shall in "that day" be put to shame, And doomed to dark despair. —J. W. TAYLOR in World's Crisis.