p. 4 | TWO RIVERS by S. H. Carnahan

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 30, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 13.

TWO RIVERS.

By S. H. Carnahan

BY S. H. CARNAHAN.

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GRANDE RONDE RIVER’s waters flow windingly across one of the most fruitful valleys in Oregon; past city, hamlet, village, and town; among shady copse bowers; thence, through evergreen-bedecked canyons and rock-ribbed gorges, and are delivered where they are hurried by the Snake and Columbia to be swallowed up by the briny deep.

But this river bears no comparison, in either beauty or grandeur, to that noble and majestic river to be in this earth when restored from its present, sin-cursed condition to its Edenic purity. The fountain of that river—the river of life—will be at the throne of God and of the Lamb. Rev. 22:1. Its waters are as clear as crystal. And doubtless, as it flows from the city—New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2)—it will, like the river that originally flowed from the Garden of Eden, be separated into four branches (Gen. 2:10); and as these reach out, will spread into all parts of the earth, carrying life and blessings to the inhabitants of the world made new.

Those who drink of its waters shall never die (Rev. 21:4), and they will also eat of the fruit of the tree of life, which stands on either side of the river, and which bears twelve manner of fruits, yielding her fruit every month.

“Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth” (Matt. 5:5), “wherein dwelleth righteousness” (2 Peter 3:13).

Elgin, Oregon.