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THE STREAM OF LIFE

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The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 11, 1879

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 24

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THE STREAM OF LIFE.

The stream of life is going dry; Thank God, that more and more I see the golden sands, which I Could never see before.
The banks are dark with graves of friends; Thank God for faith sublime In the eternity beyond The gloomy shades of time.
The flowers are gone that with their glow Of sunshine filled the grass; Thank God, they were but dim and low Reflections in a glass.
The autumn winds are blowing chill; The summer warmth is done; Thank God, the little dewdrop still Is drawn into the sun.
Strange stream, to be exhaled so fast In cloudy cares and tears; Thank God, that it should shine at last Along the immortal years.
—Selected.