EVERY SINNER MAY BE SHARER.
By Llewellyn A. Morrison
BY LLEWELLYN A. MORRISON. [“Thou shalt have joy and gladness.”] THERE are brighter things before us
Than the brightest we have known,
For our Father will restore us,
By the largess of his throne,
Every silvery sunbeam shaded,
All the blessedness above,
Till we see—by faith unaided—
All the glory of his love. There are better times awaiting,
Where his royal mercies teem,
And where life needs no translating,
Like the phantoms of a dream;
Where the truth shall rule, and Reason
Be her messenger of grace;
Where, in every clime and season,
Virtue hath her virgin place. There are purer hearts in keeping
For the patient ones who pray
Than the purest penance, weeping,
Ever wrought in cumbered clay—
For the holiness invested
In the soul-redeeming blood
Hath all pureness manifested
Which the human hath in God. There's a fairer morning breaking
For this weary world of ours
Than the fairest dawn awaking
O’er a summer-land of flowers,
For Immanuel will banish
Evil, wrong, and sin away;
All the vice and crime will vanish
Ere that coming, perfect day. O, the sweetness of the resting
When the turbulence is past!
O, the peace, beyond molesting,
When his favors hold us fast!
Brighter! Better! Purer! Fairer!
He hath said, and it shall be:
Every sinner may be sharer
Unto all eternity.