WATCHWORDS FOR THE NEW YEAR by Eva Travers

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, February 17, 1885

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 7

WATCHWORDS FOR THE NEW YEAR.

By Eva Travers

WAITING! Luke 12: 36.

We are waiting for the coming of the Master we hold dear; We are longing just to greet him and to hail his drawing near. Our loins are girt and ready, and our lamps are trimmed and bright; We are waiting for the signal that will say he is in sight.

WORKING! Mark 13: 34.

We would not have him find us standing idle all the day. We learn to work while waiting, doing something by the way; And we find that working for him is a toil so rarely sweet, That we almost wish for tarrying in the coming of his feet.

WARNING! Eze. 3: 17.

And we know that he has bidden us bring others to his love, And we long to fill the mansions that are waiting up above; While we work, we dare not fail to warn each straying heart, That in our Lord and in our home they too may have a part.

WAKING! Cant. 5: 2.

Sometimes we almost weary of our constant gaze on high, And our hearts grow dull, and hopeless of his speedy drawing nigh; Then comes our need of waking, for each moment brings him near, And the signal lights of heaven daily shine more bright and clear.

WATCHING! Mark 13: 37.

As we stand, with waking heart-look, till the night of life shall cease, Looking for the golden day-dawn that shall herald light and peace; When the dim earth-mists that sadden flee before the sunrise bright, Our hearts be fully gladdened in our Saviour's glorious light. —Eva Travers.