g hand. I plead with you to
take these truths to heart. Turn your face heavenward. Go forward to
the Promised Land. Break your fetters and live for the new things which
God hath prepared for those that love him.

"UNTIL THE DAY DAWN."

_"The things which are not seen are eternal."_--I CORINTHIANS 4: 18.

"UNTIL THE DAY DAWN."

Awake, my soul! The eternal day is breaking,
The darkness of the world is pierced with lights,
And rays, prophetic of the morn's arising,
Already gleam far up the eastern heights.

The day of painless life and tireless vigor,
The day of widening knowledge of the best,
The day when earth's deceits and adumbrations
Shall change into the truth in glory dressed.

O soul of mine, let not dull sleep bewitch thee;
Let not the gilded fantasies of sense
Cause thee to slumber when heaven's light is shining,
And God's dear voice is summoning thee hence.

Thine earthly life is but a preparation
For grander toil and never-ending joys.
Thou wast not meant to find it satisfactory,
Its keenest sorrows are its broken toys.

Already has thine opening eye caught vision
Of things more real, of gladness more profound,
When, through the rupture of this earth's relations,
The voice of God and truth has uttered sound.

Then bend thy gaze to the predestined future,
Anticipate the life that draweth nigh;
Awake, my soul, and contemplate the portion
Of those whose lot is fixed with Christ on high.

Think of the seed that bloometh into flower;
Think of the thought that shapes itself in deed;
Think of the chaos ordered into beauty;
Think of the Child that for the world did bleed.

Mark what portentous prophecies of power
All these suggest as thine intended goal,
When day, now breaking, shall at last be entered
And the grand promise shall itself unroll.

Soul! let the voice of Christ, thy sure Forerunner,
Summon thee now into the heavenly life.
Soon shall the brightness of the day flow o'er thee,
Soon peace shall end thy bitter earthly strife.

Thine are these mansions; thine the Father's bosom;
Thine the high paths that sinless feet have trod.
Thine is to be the light that faileth never,
The endless life of fellowship with God.

_December 29, 1895._