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Review and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 10.

Infinitude

Review and Herald

Feb 24, 1916

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 24, 1916

Infinitude

By WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN

WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN
We cannot measure Thy great love, As boundless as the sea; But fill, O Lord, our little cup, That we may sup with thee.
No man can fathom thy deep thought, Or scale the heights of grace; Yet under the almighty wing We find abiding place.
No vision have we of thy cross,— Our earthly sight is dim,— But in its shelter we have rest, And liberty from sin.
If meager measure here abounds To overflow the soul, What must be heaven’s rapture feast Where we may know the whole!
Portland, Oregon.

A Religious Revival to End the War

VICE ADMIRAL SIR DAVID BEATTY, commander of the first British battle cruiser squadron, in a letter to the annual convention of the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, urges a greater religious revival in England as necessary before war can end. An extract from this letter appeared in the Washington Post of Jan. 30, 1916, from which we quote:—
“Surely, Almighty God does not intend this war to be just a hideous fracas or a blood-drunken orgy. There must be a purpose in it; improvement must come out of it. . . . England still remains to be taken out of the stupor of self-satisfaction and complacency into which her flourishing condition has steeped her. Until she can be stirred out of this condition, until a religious revival takes place, just so long will the war continue.
“When she can look on the future with humbler eyes and a prayer on her lips, then we can begin to count the days toward the end.”
It is undoubtedly true that God has a purpose in the calamities which he allows to come upon the earth. While in the case of any special calamity, his purpose may not be clear; yet trouble is often the means of turning the minds and hearts of men to Christ and the promises of the Bible. We cannot, however, share the hope entertained by some that war will yet be entirely banished from this present world; for the Scriptures indicate otherwise.

"Back to First Principles"

UNDER this heading the Presbyterian of the South makes the following excellent observations regarding the payment of tithe:—
“Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, the priest of the most high God; Jacob promised to give back to God the tenth of all God should enable him to earn; by the mouth of Moses the tithe was made a binding law of the nation, and in many messages of the prophets the neglect of the tithe was given as the cause of national calamities, while strong, unequivocal promises were based on the faithful keeping of this law.
“Nor can any say that the tithe has been abrogated since Jesus himself said to the Pharisees, ‘Ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.’
“The tithing plan worked well for the Jews in all their generations. Time and again they proved God’s threats and promises. When they brought in all their tithes, they prospered; when they withheld them, they were cursed with a curse because they had ‘robbed’ God.
“Part of the last prophetic message sent before the time of Christ was (Mal. 3:10): ‘Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.’
“And since Christ himself has indorsed the plan, how can any object or excuse themselves from its obligation?
“One of the strongest proofs that it still has God’s sanction is that it still has God’s promised blessing wherever tried, and that those who try it faithfully never fail to be convinced that it is the right way.
“If only preachers would preach it and teachers teach it, and parents would train up their children in this way that they should go, there would be no more need for pathetic appeals from the foreign mission office, nor the home office either; for according to the promise of God, the treasury would be full to overflowing, and the heathen at home and abroad would know of the Saviour who died for them. And what better time to begin than now?”
It is true of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, as of the Presbyterian Church South, that if this subject were taught more faithfully in our churches, and if Seventh-day Adventist parents trained their children in this way, and if the members discharged this plain obligation as they should, “there would be no more need for pathetic appeals from the foreign mission office, nor the home office either,” for funds to carry forward the work of God. In rendering to God his own we should be moved not alone by the sense of obligation, but it should be counted a blessed privilege to return to God a small part of that which he has given to us. As we have freely received, we should freely give.

Note and Comment

Increase in American Churches

SAYS the New York Times of January 30:—
“According to figures given out yesterday by the Federal Council of Churches, the churches of the United States, irrespective of denomination, had last year the greatest growth in their history. The report indicates that of the 100,000,000 Americans approximately 40,000,000 are church members. The following table shows the enrolled membership for 1915 of the best-known religious bodies, with the gain or loss of each:—
Present Membership Growth in 1915
Baptists, North ..... 1,252,633 14,310
Baptists, South ..... 2,705,121 112,804
Catholics, East. Ortho. 467,500 5,000
Catholics, Roman ... 14,049,068 259,426
Congregationalists ... 771,362 18,274
Disciples of Christ... 1,363,100 .....
Evangelicals ....... 205,255 14,962
Friends (Quakers).. 120,712 .....
Lutherans ........ 2,434,188 *10,786
Methodists, North .... 3,657,594 54,329
Methodists, Prot. .... 201,110 20,728
Methodists, South ... 2,072,035 66,328
Presbyterians, North. 1,434,400 56,200
Presbyterians, United 153,651 5,431
Presbyterians, South 332,339 21,737
Protestant Episcopal . 1,040,896 25,648
Reformed in Amer... 126,847 3,704
Reformed in U. S... 320,459 7,779
Unitarians ........ 70,542 .....
United Brethren .... 360,387 38,343
Universalists ..... 55,000 3,000
  • Loss”

Moving Pictures

Much has been written during the last few years regarding the evils of moving picture shows. The danger to the morals of the young in attending these shows has not been overestimated. Mrs. Emma Gary Wallace, a woman of wide experience in dealing with problems of this character, speaks of the influence of these shows, in the Continent of Jan. 27, 1916:—
“Our temperance teaching receives a serious setback and our most earnest lessons are discredited when our young people see film favorites freely partake of wine, champagne, and other spirituous liquors upon all sorts of occasions.
“Our girls are shocked at first to see beautifully gowned women in luxurious apartments, smoking cigarettes. After a while they grow accustomed to the sight. One girl of quiet, industrious family, in her late teens, expressed the opinion recently that these practices are thought nothing of in the best society, as it was only old-fashioned, strait-laced, narrow-minded individuals who have never seen life who object to this sort of thing. Again, a carefully brought-up young man was heard to argue laughingly that there were plenty of people everywhere who took strong drink when it pleased them, and were not hurt by it either. He spoke of his own lack of sophistication, and the shock he had felt when he first saw this sort of thing presented. Many such presentations had calloused these finer sensibilities.”

Climbing

By G. B. T.

JESUS has admonished us that following him means the forsaking of all we have in this life — home, friends, money, all. The inspired apostle exhorts that we lay aside every weight if we would win in the Christian race. In another place we are instructed to lay aside all malice, envy, evil speaking, and such like, in order that we may grow strong in spiritual things.
We cannot successfully climb the rugged mountains of life's experiences, and face the storms and gales, loaded down with worldly accessories. I was reading recently of an ambitious and hearty young man who set out to climb Mt. Blanc. The toughened old guides told him the climb was so strenuous that he must take nothing with him. But he would not listen; he was determined to take pictures, some notebooks to record his impressions and experiences, and certain articles of gay clothing. He started. Another climbing party started a few hours later. At the first stopping place they found his eatables. Farther on they found his camera, a little later his books, still farther his extra clothing, and at the top they found the young man, tired and footsore, and stripped of all unnecessary equipment.
It is even so in the Christian life. We cannot mount up on eagles' wings loaded down with the things of this world. All must sooner or later be laid aside if we reach the top. Here is where many fail, and make no progress in their Christian experience. They are holding on to something. They are trying to carry too much baggage with them to heaven. But those who go through the “needle's eye” into the kingdom must leave the world outside. G. B. T.

“My Peace I Give unto You”

By F. M. W.

It is possible in this world of unrest for the children of God to possess the spirit of peace. The promise is, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.” Isa. 26: 3, 4.
This experience will be made possible in the lives of those only who fully commit their ways unto God, and who confidently believe that his overruling providence will shape every feature of their experience for their eternal good. And this the Lord has promised to do for his children. The apostle Paul declares: “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” Rom. 8: 28. Paul’s knowledge of this great truth was not a knowledge of experience, but a knowledge of faith. He was unable to reason out how some of the great trials which came into his life were for his benefit. He could not understand why his bodily affliction should be suffered to continue, and he sought the Lord earnestly three times that this might be removed. God did not give him that for which he prayed, but he did comfort him with the assurance that heavenly grace would be provided according to his need. Read the apostle’s experience in the eleventh and twelfth chapters of Second Corinthians.
But while undergoing all these trials and afflictions, the apostle could confidently write to the Philippian believers, “The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” We shall need in the days before us the keeping power of this same peace. We shall need it as we are surrounded by the world’s spirit of unrest. On every side is disquietude; men’s hearts are failing them for fear; the nations of earth are in perplexity. They know not what a day will bring forth; they know not whither the rapidly passing events in the world’s history are tending. But we who have the light of prophecy may know. We of course cannot tell in detail how events will shape. We cannot tell what will be our own personal experience. But we may know that above the confusion and the strife and the commotion stands the Creator of the universe. He is keeping account with the nations. He is watching over his own. He cannot err; he has never made a mistake. He has his eye on the furnace, and if we will but commit the keeping of our souls unto him, he will permit no experience to befall us but that will work our eternal good and his eternal glory. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14: 27.
We need this keeping power of peace in the relationship we sustain to our neighbors. We may be associated with those who naturally annoy and distract, who are anything but congenial. We may be associated in business relations with those whose ways are naturally distasteful. By God’s grace, however, we may prove greater than our environment. Like Lot in ancient Sodom, like Elijah in the days of general apostasy, we may stand for God and for his truth, even though we stand alone.
We need the keeping power of peace in our church relationship. Many times we shall see in the church things that are wrong. Just as long as poor human nature is associated with the work of God, mistakes will be made. In ancient Israel, when God by the visible manifestation of his glory was leading his people, there were those who raised the standard of revolt. Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, with the two hundred and fifty princes, turned their backs upon God. Aaron, the high priest, and Miriam, the prophetess of the Lord, committed grievous mistakes; and even Moses, the man who talked with God face to face as a man talketh with his friend, failed in the supreme test to give God the glory. We may see in the world great evils. We may see even in the church those who do not meet our ideals; men who appear to be self-opinionated, egotistical, and vainglorious; men who seem determined to have their own way; men who love power and recognition; policy men; schemers. Such men have always been found in the church, and they will continue there till the fires of persecution burn out the chaff and the dross; but the promise is, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.”
We may have that living connection with God that will enable us to possess our souls in patience and in peace, even though we may differ from those with whom we are associated. We believe that in this is seen the greatest triumph of divine grace. To be able to differ from our brethren in plan and policy, and yet love them and feel kindly inour hearts toward them, and be at peace with them and with God,—this surely is one test of Christianity. It is only the possession of the Spirit of God that will enable us to do this. This was the spirit exercised by the Master. He made no difference between Judas and John, or Peter and James, and yet one he was compelled to rebuke for his impulsive egotism, and another he knew was plotting his betrayal. It is a great thing to be able to maintain in our hearts the spirit of peace toward our fellows.
We need the keeping power of peace in our own homes, in our relationship to our parents, to our companions, to our children. It is here, in the wear and grind and perplexity of daily life, that we stand in the greatest danger. With peace in his own soul and peace in his own home, a man can go forth to meet the coldness of the world and the rebuffs of life with a brave, strong heart. But how many men and women and children are constantly unnerved and unfitted for life’s responsibilities by the unrest and the turmoil which exist in their home lives!
Some who read these words live in divided homes. Oh, how greatly these need to have the keeping power of the peace of God in their lives,—that power which will lead them to suppress the fretful word, the impatient gesture; which will lead them to overlook the failings and faults of those with whom they are associated!
After all, the real victory of Christian experience must be gained in one’s own life. The Christian has foes, without, many and fierce, but it is the conflict with the foes within that really determines the issues of the conflict. The peace of God finds its counterfeit in self-satisfaction. That man who poses outwardly as a follower of Christ while at heart he is a hypocrite, who professes that which he does not possess, is living under a terrible delusion. And yet we must recognize that there are many such professed Christians in the world today. There may be some in the Seventh-day Adventist Church,—men who talk charity while their hearts are filled with criticism; men who talk purity while their own hearts are filled with iniquity; men who profess to be zealous for the truth while they themselves are only timeservers, seekers for the loaves and fishes, worldly policy men.
It is most important in these days in which we are living that we should know where we as individuals stand. We cannot rest our experience upon that of our fellows, upon the position which we hold, upon the estimate of our friends. In the judgment, every soul must stand naked and alone before God. Oh, let us view our experience today as we shall see it in that solemn hour! Let us recognize our condition as it will stand revealed by the records of God. There is nothing so terrible in all the world as self-deception, as for one to believe he is right when he is altogether wrong, as for one to count himself accepted of heaven when God looks upon his course with disapproval. Let us pray in the words of the psalmist: “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Ps. 139: 23, 24.
F. M. W.

The Fashion of the World

By G. B. T.

“For the fashion of this world passeth away.” 1 Cor. 7:31. In these words the inspired apostle expresses the transitory, fleeting character of earthly things. One writer tells us that “the literal translation of the word rendered ‘fashion’ is the shifting of the scenes in the playhouse, as one scenic representation succeeds another in rapid succession.”
“All the world’s a stage, The men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances.”
The scenes of life shift in quick and rapid succession. All that we see around us is but a spectacle which will soon give place to scenes of a far different character.
About us everywhere are faces that have been swept with the lights and shadows of fifty years or more. Ask him on whose head the whitening snows of threescore years and ten have fallen, if he can recall any changes in life’s drama. Ask him if his experience bears testimony to the truthfulness of the words “for the fashion of this world passeth away.” Bring from the tomb him who went down beneath the icy hand of death a century ago, and ask him if he sees any changes since he fell asleep. He would perhaps fail to recognize the place of his birth.
Everything earthly shows the mold of decay. Nations pass away. Sand engulfs the monuments of the proud and mighty Pharaohs. There are deserts now where gardens of flowers once bloomed. Babylon has passed away, though once the proud mistress of the ancient world. Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome have also gone down under the triturations of time. Nineveh, that great city that Jonah warned, is dug from her grave by the spade of the explorer. Another has truly said, “A mysterious curse, created by sin, not part and parcel of the original creation, wastes down and wears out all the workmanship of man’s hands; and time rushes along a resistless stream; and floating down its bosom, like driftwood, are palaces and hovels, are scepters and scythes and crowns; and every voice we hear, and every scene we witness, only authenticates and impresses the solemn aphorism, ‘The fashion of this world passeth away.’”
Wealth, which the avaricious heart of man covets, takes wings and vanishes away. Costly palaces crumble into ruins. Rulers and statesmen, on whose word the destiny of a nation may have hung, die and are soon forgotten. Nothing endures. Soon everything will be wrapped in the consuming fire of that day when the earth will melt with fervent heat, and everything in it be burned up.
But there is a brighter day beyond, when sin will be no more, when the very springs of sorrow will be dried up, when the curse and all that goes with it will cease to be.
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Rev. 21: 1-4.
The beauties of that land which sin has not marred, and which will endure through all time, were so eloquently described by Elder Uriah Smith in a sermon some time before his death, that I cannot forbear quoting a portion here:—
“The goodly land! I can hardly forbear, before I close, casting a glance forward to that heavenly inheritance which is the objective point of all our struggles, our toils, and our desires. I see there a land which stands in a wonderful contrast to this. As the hymn says,—
“Oh, how unlike the present world, Will be the one to come!”
“I see fields smiling in living green, trees majestic in their wealth of verdure, flowers dazzling with their rainbow hues, and on neither field nor tree nor flower do I see the touch of frost, or the pale hand of decay. I see no footprints of the curse, nor scars of sin. I see no pestilence walking in darkness, nor destruction wasting at noonday. I see no forms distorted with pain, nor brows furrowed with anxiety and care. I see no mournful shafts telling where weary forms and sad and broken hearts have gone down into dust and darkness. I see no painful messages passing over that land, as two days ago we received one here, telling that a friend, a brother, a fellow laborer, had fallen beneath the cruel stroke of a relentless foe. I see no darkened room where the tide of a precious life is ebbing slowly away. I see no bosoms heaving with anguish, no badges of mourning, no funeral trains, no yawning, insatiate grave. But on the other hand, I see a glorious companywho bear bright palms of victory over death and the grave. I see, as one of our hymns says, that—
“‘The glory of God, like a molten sea, Bathes the immortal company.’”
“I see every eye sparkling with the fulness of the joy that reigns within. I see on every cheek the bloom of eternal youth and everlasting health. I see every limb lithe and strong. I see the lame man leaping as a hart. I see the blind gazing with rapture on the celestial glory. I see the deaf listening enchanted to the heavenly melody. I see the dumb joining with loud voice in the anthems of praise. I see the mother clasping to her bosom the children she had lost awhile in the land of the enemy, but now recovered forever. I see long-parted friends meet in eternal reunion. I see a river so pure and clear, so charged with every element of refreshment and life, that it is called ‘the river of life.’ I see a tree overarching all, so healing in its leaves, so vivifying in its fruits, that it is called ‘the tree of life.’ I see a great white throne in whose effulgence there is no need of moon or sun to give us light. I hear a voice saying to that victorious company, ‘This is your rest forever, and you shall no more be acquainted with grief; for there shall be no more pain or death, and sorrow and mourning have forever fled away.’ And in all the universe I then see no trace of sin or suffering, but I hear from every world and from every creature, a joyous anthem, like the sound of many waters, going up to God; and they say, ‘Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever.’”
“Such is the goodly land we may go up and possess. Such is the land that awaits every laborer who is faithful to the end. The Spirit and the bride say Come; and whosoever will, may come. If any here have not yet turned their feet Zionward, let me say, ‘Come thou with us, and we will do thee good.’”
G. B. T.

The Purpose of His Coming

By L. L. C.

The Second Advent— No. 3

The Purpose of His Coming

ENOCH, the earliest preacher of the second advent of Christ of whom we have record, gave the purpose of his coming in words quoted in the fourteenth and fifteenth verses of the book of Jude:—
“Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” Jude 14, 15.
Christ, speaking through the apostle John in the last chapter of the last book in the Bible, gives the same reason:—
“Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” Rev. 22:12.
Paul, in giving his charge to Timothy, begun,— “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom.” 2 Tim. 4:1.
And he ended with the often-quoted words:—
“I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” Verses 6-8.
Not only are the righteous to be rewarded, and all men—good and bad, alive and dead—to be judged at his coming, but the world itself is to be restored to its primitive beauty.
“He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.” Acts 3:20, 21.
A departing friend, if he plans to return, will comfort those whom he is leaving with the hope that they will again have his personal companionship. If he promises that they shall not again be separated, the pain of the temporary separation is very much lessened. When about to leave this world and go to the Father, Christ offered his sorrowing disciples this hope:—
“If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14:3.
In that greatest of human sorrow, the separation made between friends by death, the hope of Christ’s coming offers consolation. The apostle Paul writes all those who mourn:—
“I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” 1 Thess. 4:13-18.
When we see the injustice which often prevails in this world, and which it may have been our lot to suffer, we should remember the exhortation addressed to those who are oppressed by the rich men in the days when great fortunes are made by keeping back the hire of the laborers. This is the exhortation which we find in James 5:7, 8:—
“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”
L. L. C.

The Meaning of True Repentance

Two little boys met to play together for the afternoon, and had not been thus engaged long when the larger boy transgressed the rights of his weaker playmate. The latter, too proud to make complaint, withdrew some distance and sat by himself, manfully winking back the too-ready tears. After a little the larger boy grew tired of solitary play, and called, “Say, Georgie, come back. I’m sorry.” Georgie, warned by previous experience, did not respond to the invitation at once. “Yes,” he replied cautiously, “but what kind of sorry? the kind so you won’t do it again?” It is poor repentance that does not interfere with a repetition. Repentance was once defined by a small girl: “It’s to be sorry enough to quit.”—Sunday School Times.

Kings in Exile

It has been long years since the world witnessed a time when thrones were tottering as they are today. The whirlwind of the present great European conflict has already swept three kings into exile. Belgium has been overrun, and King Albert has found refuge in France. King Nicholas of Montenegro has been driven from his domain, and King Peter of Serbia has found an asylum in the French Republic. How many other kings or kingdoms will go down in this terrible cataclysm we cannot say. It is a matter of current report, however, that several other nations of Europe are facing grave internal situations.
Truly this is a time when there is “distress of nations, in perplexity,” and when men are “fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world.” The foundations of the most stable governments appear to be trembling and in peril. But above the warring nations, above earth’s turmoil and strife, God watches over his own, and his children may rest securely in him. In the words of the psalmist they can say:—
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. . . . The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.” Ps. 46: 1-7.

The Christian Hope

By B. GRAHAM

B. GRAHAM
“It is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” I Cor. 2:9.
The glories of the Promised Land, By holy prophets long foretold, Draw near to cheer the pilgrim band, And heavenly pleasures to unfold.
The weary earth in anguish moans, Oppressed with sorrow, grief, and pain; The whole creation, waiting, groans For freedom from satanic reign.
Then, saints, lift up your voices high, Foretell a new creation’s birth (For your redemption draweth nigh), And herald it through all the earth.
No human tongue the praise can tell, Nor earthly pen the joy describe, Where saints in bliss triumphant dwell And everlasting joys abide.
The dwellers there no troubles know To blight the joys of endless day, All free from sorrow, sin, and woe, And tears forever wiped away.
Then morning stars shall sing again, And all the sons of God rejoice, While men redeemed exclaim, Amen, Rejoicing with exultant voice.
The long-lost friends again shall meet, No more through Satan’s wiles to fall; They’ll cast their crowns at Jesus’ feet, Who won salvation for us all.
Soon shall we praise our coming King, From every fear of sorrow free, And join the song that angels sing, In glorious immortality.
O, bless the Lord, whose boundless love Delivers from sin’s darkest stain; That endless love the saints shall prove When Eden blooms on earth again.
The New Jerusalem comes down, Adorned with pearl and mansions fair; Once homeless ones now gain a home, And dwell with Christ forever there.
Takoma Park, D. C.
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