p. 179 | WE WAIT FOR THEE by Martha Baker

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 22, 1868

WE WAIT FOR THEE.

By Martha Baker

We wait for thee, dear Saviour; When wilt thou come again, To gather home thy suffering saints, With thee in Heaven to reign? To put an end to sin and woe, Oppression, wrong, and strife; And crown thy saints with joy and peace, And everlasting life?

We wait for thee, dear Saviour— Implore thy love and care, Oh! hearken to our zealous pleas, Attend our earnest prayer. Our foes are strong and watchful, We want to overcome, We would not fail to win at last Our long-sought, Christian’s home.

We wait for thee, dear Saviour; Oh! leave us not alone, Here in this wilderness of strife, By sin to be o’erthrown, But chasten, prune, and purge us, Till precious fruit we bear; And when we have been overcome, Deliver from the snare.

Drop not our names, dear Saviour, But mention us, we pray, And send the holy angels down To help us on our way; Lest looking back or loitering We fail to overcome, And miss the prize, and fail to reach The Christian’s happy home.

MARTHA BAKER. Health Institute, Battle Creek, Mich.