LOOKING FORWARD by L. D. Santee

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, December 2, 1884

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 48

LOOKING FORWARD.

By L. D. Santee

BY ELD. L. D. SANTEE.

I look in the future with faith's loving eyes, And my heart thrills with joy in a wondrous surprise. Oh, I'll gladly endure all earth's labors and care, Can I dwell with the glorified ones over there!

Time's sorrows are past, and this life's dreary years Roll back like a scroll that is blistered with tears; Our labors are ended! our troubles at last Are lost in the sorrowful sea of the past.

The joys of the future—now brightly they shine! They were purchased for us by a Saviour divine. There is love in the future, and never again Come the shadows of doubting, and heartache, and pain.

Oh, blessed Elysium! 'twill never be past; As long as the years of the Highest 'twill last. 'Tis an earth all made new, 'tis the glory of heaven, 'Tis the home of the ransomed, of nations forgiven.

Oswego, Kan.