There will be no night there!
(Rufus Wheelwright Clark, "Heaven and its Scriptural Emblems" 1853)
Revelation 21:25
Is it not a blessed announcement that there
is a world in which "there will be no night!"
is a world in which "there will be no night!"
No night of crime, deceit, treachery or temptation!
No night of sorrow or affliction!
No night of pain, sickness or death!
Oh, tell it to the weary believer,
who is struggling against the evil
habits and depraved inclinations
of a wicked heart; who, on life's
fierce battlefield, is striving to win
an immortal crown!
who is struggling against the evil
habits and depraved inclinations
of a wicked heart; who, on life's
fierce battlefield, is striving to win
an immortal crown!
Oh, tell it to the dying Christian,
who, restless upon his bed, through
long, wearisome nights, is trying to
learn the lessons of submission, and
faith, and moral discipline, which
his sufferings are teaching--
who longs for light to break through
the dark clouds that are gathering about him.
who, restless upon his bed, through
long, wearisome nights, is trying to
learn the lessons of submission, and
faith, and moral discipline, which
his sufferings are teaching--
who longs for light to break through
the dark clouds that are gathering about him.
Oh, hasten with the tidings to
the bereaved family, and assure them
that there is a world where these griefs
shall be lifted from their oppressed spirits,
and their present afflictions, if rightly
improved, shall work out of them
eternal weight of glory!"
(2 Corinthians 4:17)
For where GOD is--
there can be no night.
there can be no night.
Where bright, holy angels throng--
there can be no sorrow.
there can be no sorrow.
Where celestial music rolls through
the galleries and arches of temples
filled with the effulgence of the Deity--
there can be no sighing.
Where JESUS reigns in
HIS majesty and glory,
(Revelations 21:4)
No night in Heaven!
Then . . .
Then . . .
no sad partings are experienced there,
no funeral processions move,
no death-knell is heard,
no graves are opened,
no mysterious providences will there perplex us,
no dark calamities will shake our faith.
But we shall walk the golden streets
of the eternal city, surrounded with
perpetual brightness, breathing an
atmosphere of heavenly purity and love,
and free to enter the palaces of our SAVIOR-KING,
or climb to heights over which no shadow ever passes!
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