p. 1 | EDEN SHALL BLOOM ON EARTH AGAIN by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, January 6, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 1

EDEN SHALL BLOOM ON EARTH AGAIN.

By Editor

[Suggested by the words of a sister in a social meeting. Speaking of the hope we have to sustain us amid the discouragements and sorrows of this world, she said, “I know that Eden shall bloom on earth again.”]

Who can the tale of woe begin, Or paint this gloom-o’ershadowed world, When from his throne of beauty hurled, Man made his first mad plunge in sin?

Like beacon to the tempest tossed, Receding o’er the midnight waves, Where hope and joy find starless graves, Stands Eden like a haven lost.

No ray of light the future shows To man’s unaided vision given, No source of life, no way to heaven, No balm for his o’er-towering woes.

But who can paint the smiles through tears, The light from sorrow-saddened eyes, When in the cloud-bemantled skies The glorious bow of hope appears.

A promise echoes through the gloom, Comes floating from the eternal throne— Which else lost man had never known— Eden on earth again shall bloom.

Man’s loftiest flights could ne’er attain, Nor his philosophy e’er scan, This climax of God’s wondrous plan— Eden shall bloom on earth again.

Lost beauty shall again appear, Lost peace and glory be restored, Lost innocence—so long ignored; And God shall tabernacle here.

Hail, holy light! Hail, promise sure! With hope before us such as this, An open gateway into bliss, Earth’s trials we can well endure.

Oh, Eden! goal of all our hopes; Oh, tree of life! oh, crystal stream, Bright in His smiles who reigns supreme; Oh, mount of bowers and sunny slopes!

Oh, happy throngs of captives free! Oh, streets of joy! oh, homes of peace! Oh, welcome hour that brings release— Our all is centered now in thee.

Take thy great power, O Lord, and reign! For thee shall ope the gates of day, Sin, death, and darkness flee away, And Eden bloom on earth again.

—Ed.