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 THOUGHTS OF HEAVEN. 
 
 BY 
 
 HARRIET MALLARD. 
 
 " In my Father's house are many mansions : if it were not so, I would 
 have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 
 
 " And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and 
 receive you unto w^yself ; that where I am, there ye may he also." 
 
 
 '^■^ of V/a4V\\<N^° 
 
 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by Haeriet Mallard, in the 
 Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District 
 of New York. 
 
 Saker ^ Godwin, Pnntera, No. 1 Spruce St., iV. T. 
 
T6 Si"^ , 
 
 THOUGHTS OF HEAYEN. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY. 
 
 Thej asked us where was heaven — 
 
 Where we had hoped ere long 
 Our freedom would be given 
 
 To join the blissful throng — 
 Asked what and where was heaven, 
 
 With its many mansions bright, 
 Which we had trustful striven 
 
 Bj faith to hold in sight ? 
 
 They asked if e'er heaven's portals 
 
 Had lent the faintest view, 
 And when the gaze of mortals 
 
 Had pierced the curtains through 
 That hid and would forever 
 
 That wondrous world so bland ? 
 And the skeptic told us never 
 
 Should we behold that land. 
 
 Then we said to the graceless scoffer, 
 
 Beware ! no longer spurn 
 Of life divine the offer. 
 
 O turn (and thou may'st learn) 
 To the word revealed, most holy — 
 
 To that lamp of saving light ! 
 For all in heart that's lowly 
 
 There's eye-salve for the sight. 
 
SCEIPTUKAL TESTIMONY. 
 
 The scales that long hath hidden 
 
 Truth's melting rays from thee. 
 By grace shall then be bidden 
 
 To fall, and thou wilt see. 
 Within thy heart — thy spirit — 
 
 Heaven it will be revealed, 
 And hope — blest hope — inherit 
 
 What to thy soul is sealed. 
 
 Belief with rapture dwelleth 
 
 On each illumined line 
 Inspired — the way that telleth 
 
 Where truthful search may find 
 The Christ, the Lord's anointed ; 
 
 Of Him they testify. 
 The Lamb of God appointed, 
 
 That brings salvation nigh. 
 
 Ask such of heaven who bendeth 
 
 The cross to take — to bear — 
 And ever upward sendeth 
 
 With single heart the prayer — 
 Ask such ; they will be telling, 
 
 'Mid all this scene of strife, 
 Within their breast there's welling 
 
 A spring of heaven — of life. 
 
A GLOEIOIJS DESTINY. 
 
 Enough to know of heaven 
 
 'Tis the high and holy place 
 Where the Universal Architect 
 
 He vaileth not his face — 
 The Lord our God and Father, 
 
 Whose name as Lo'oe is known- 
 To know we're bidden welcome 
 
 To see his mighty throne. 
 
 O mystery — deep, deep mystery — 
 
 What destiny is thine ! 
 Poor weak, frail, fallen sinner 
 
 (Alone by grace divine), 
 If but to own the scepter 
 
 Of Jesus thou hast kneeled. 
 Thy passport to all blessedness 
 
 By heaven's own hand is sealed. 
 
 All, all that through eternity's 
 
 Uncomprehensive round 
 The love of vast infinitude 
 
 Shall give for to abound — 
 God, heaven and saints and angels. 
 
 Thy ministers to be — 
 May faith, that gift of mercy, 
 
 Be now vouchsafed to thee. 
 
THE EXILE OF PATMOS. 
 
 The Exile of Patmos, 
 
 A stranger and lone,. 
 That hatred for Jesus 
 
 Had banished— had driven— 
 Had visions of God, 
 
 Of his kingdom, his throne, 
 And in spirit was called 
 
 To the presence of heaven. 
 
 He heard the new song 
 
 Of redemption there swelling. 
 The glorified Saviour 
 
 To praise and adore, 
 By thousands of thousands 
 
 Of voices loud telling 
 That blessing and honor 
 
 Are his evermore. 
 
 When Stephen, proto-martyf. 
 
 He was about to die. 
 Within the vail of heaven 
 
 Was fixed his mortal eye ; 
 With more than earthly splendor 
 
 His saintly face it shone. 
 While he steadfast gazed on Jesus 
 
 Exalted to the throne. 
 
6 WITH CHKIST IN PARADISE. 
 
 When the expiring criminal 
 
 To be remembered cried, 
 The Saviour all compassionate 
 
 Most graciously replied : 
 " To-day with me in heaven — 
 
 Yes, verily, with me, 
 Thou now repentant spirit 
 
 In Paradise shall be." 
 
 An exceeding weight of glory 
 
 Awaiteth all the just, 
 The humble, pure and penitent. 
 
 Though weak in faith and trust ; 
 The faintest prayer that struggles — 
 
 That abba father cries — 
 It findeth there acceptance 
 
 Within the listening skies. 
 
 Where God — the great eternal — 
 
 Hath set his name — his throne — 
 Within the highest heaven, 
 
 Such names are all unknown 
 As sorrow, sin and evil. 
 
 And death and grief and pain, 
 For there a healthful river 
 
 O'erflows entire the plain. 
 
EEST FOR THE WEARY. 
 
 That river, crystal river, 
 
 Of life, of bliss, is known 
 For evermore proceeding 
 
 From the eternal throne ; 
 And they'll thirst not there forever, 
 
 For the fount shall never dry ; 
 And love divine permitteth 
 
 I^ot there one tearful eye. 
 
 There's rest there for the weary 
 
 And they hunger there no more ; 
 For a tree with fruits celestial 
 
 Grows on the blissful shore. 
 There by the living water 
 
 Of life's o'erflowing flood ; 
 And want and care and sorrow 
 
 Its banks have never trod. 
 
 The garments of salvation 
 
 Enrobe the ransomed throng. 
 While harps of gold, of triumph. 
 
 Thrill with unceasing song ; 
 They weary, no, not ever, 
 
 With heaven's ecstatic lays — 
 "With evergrowing wonder 
 
 They sing the Saviour's praise. 
 
A NEW JOY IN PARADISE. 
 
 In Heaven, a noble company 
 
 Of Martyrs they adore 
 The Lord, the great Redeemer, 
 
 And east their crowns before 
 The throne ; while alleluiahs, 
 
 In loud unwavering strains, 
 Give honor, thanks and glory 
 
 To him who lives and reigns. 
 
 Night Cometh not to curtain 
 
 The beatific place ; 
 The light of life eternal 
 
 Beams from the loving face 
 Of Jesus, now the glorified. 
 
 Once crucified and slain ; 
 His smile illumeth heaven 
 
 The vast unmeasured plain. 
 
 One joy was new in heaven. 
 
 When sighs repentant first 
 From woimded hearts and broken 
 
 They humbly contrite burst ; 
 Angels for higher rapture 
 
 They tune anew their lyres 
 If but one sorrowing sinner 
 
 For the upward path inquires. 
 
THE BIRTH OF MEKCY. 9 
 
 "No storm-cloud ever gathers 
 
 In these pellucid skies ; 
 "No mists or sickly vapors 
 
 Are ever there to rise ; 
 The denizens of heaven, 
 
 They find its atmosphere, 
 For the ransomed souls inhaling, 
 
 Divinely pure and clear. 
 
 In heaven's most blessed bower 
 
 Sweet Mercy had her birth 
 "When sin with deadly foot-steps 
 
 Profaned this Eden Earth ; 
 There Love, her smiling sister, 
 
 She clasped her gentle hand, 
 And saw her banner waving 
 
 On this polluted strand. 
 
 They're garnered safe in heaven- 
 
 The treasures which the saint. 
 The poor way-faring pilgrim, 
 
 The sad, the weak, the faint, 
 Have there laid up in deference 
 
 To the most holy word, — 
 He hath them all in keeping — 
 
 Their Father, King and Lord. 
 
10 MINISTRY OF ANGELS. 
 
 •Angels they come to minister * 
 
 To every trustful heir 
 Of faith and of salvation ; 
 
 To guard with kindly care 
 His walks, his homeward jourrtey 
 
 All through the thorny ground, 
 Until the New Jerusalem 
 
 Its golden gates are found. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 OUR ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER. 
 
 Our great High Priest and Advocate 
 
 He entered heaven to plead, 
 Present with God the Father 
 
 He lives to intercede ; 
 His heart of tend'rest sympathy 
 
 Is touched for mortal grief, 
 And his boundless store is open 
 
 When faith she asks relief. 
 
 Here known a man of sorrow. 
 
 The holy son of God 
 The path of sore temptation 
 
 His sacred feet they trod. 
 Cold mountain damps at evening 
 
 They witnessed to his prayer, 
 And night her lengthy watches 
 
 They found him kneeling there. 
 
RECEPTION OF ABEL. 11 
 
 His ejes of loving-kindness 
 
 In tend' rest pity wept, 
 He soothed the stricken mourners 
 
 Where a blighted brother slept. 
 There are no tears in heaven 
 
 "Where now he reigns in power, 
 But he sees and heeds the anguish 
 
 Ofi our most darksome hour. 
 
 In heaven's melodious orchestry 
 
 A song unique was given, 
 In strains of love, of harmony. 
 
 To greet the new arriven. 
 When martyred righteous Abel, 
 
 Yictim of hate and strife. 
 Through him he early typefied 
 
 He entered into life. 
 
 The Lamb from the foundation 
 
 For sin atonement slain. 
 His sacrificial tokens 
 
 Were never brought in vain ; 
 And when before the altar 
 
 Where flowed the typic stream. 
 The watchful, prayerful, faithful. 
 
 Found saving light to beam ; 
 
12 CONGREGATION OF THE REDEEMED. 
 
 Justice divine and mercy 
 
 Beheld the sacred rock 
 Where first the heaven attracted 
 
 The firstling of his flock, 
 Laid with the heart, the spirit — 
 
 Most welcome to the sight 
 Of Him whose fire descended 
 
 The pile to claim — to light. 
 
 The righteous of all ages 
 
 They congregate in heaven ; 
 Prophets and kings and captives. 
 
 The poor, the anguish-riven, 
 The honored and the lowly, 
 
 The bondman and the free — 
 They feast upon the fruitage 
 
 Of life's immortal tree. 
 
 They'll go no more forever 
 
 Out from the heavenlv rest ; 
 With God's immortal fullness 
 
 They're filled and saved and blest. 
 From glory unto glory 
 
 Is now their only change. 
 And the blissful fields of paradise 
 
 Eternally they'll range. 
 
MORTALITY SWALLOWED UP OF LIFE. 13 
 
 There, verilj, mortality 
 
 Is swallowed up of life ; 
 The soul, unclothed and stainless 
 
 From garb of earthly strife. 
 Puts on the saint's new costume — 
 
 The righteous robe that's given 
 Of Christ, and wrought completely 
 
 To clothe his own for heaven. 
 
 Love hath prepared a banquet 
 
 Where every welcomed guest 
 In her heaven-chosen livery , 
 
 They are adorned and dressed ; 
 He evermore presideth — 
 
 Our Saviour, King and Lord — 
 At the feast, the marriage supper. 
 
 His own self-plenished board. 
 
 The new wine of the kingdom. 
 From bowls of God's design, 
 
 Filled unto overflowing 
 
 From heaven's immortal vine, 5 
 They drink — and drink unthirsting — 
 
 And ask not for supplies ; 
 For the vintage faileth never 
 
 Within those upper skies. 
 
14 SAFELY ANCHOEED. 
 
 Tlie palm-brancli there of victory 
 
 Trium pli an t — ever-green — - 
 That speaks of perfect conquest 
 
 O'er sin and death, is seen 
 Waving in confirmation 
 
 From every victor's hand. 
 And the olive withers never 
 
 In heavenly Canaan's land. 
 
 The tempest-tossed sad mariner 
 
 Of life's perturbed main, 
 The niglit-watch cry of breakers 
 
 Shall never hear again ; 
 'No wave or angry billow 
 
 His trembling bark assail. 
 For he's moor'd — he's safely anchored- 
 
 Where storms they ne'er prevail. 
 
 That safe — that blissful harbor — 
 
 That calm untroubled sea — 
 To every weary voyager 
 
 Is free — divinely free ; 
 And from the sheltered haven 
 
 The life-boat greets the view 
 Of all that looketh God-ward 
 
 When dark waters struggling through. 
 
SCEIPTUEE WORTHIES. 15 
 
 From every tribe and kingdom 
 
 These heavenly worthies came, 
 Led safely through the wilderness, 
 
 They conquered in the name 
 Of the Captain of salvation — 
 
 Great Prince of peace — and now 
 A never-fading diadem 
 
 Adorns each joyful brow. 
 
 CHAPTER in. 
 
 THE SCRIPTURE WORTHIES. 
 
 The Apostolic company 
 
 In heaven their seats were shown 
 In beatific nearness 
 
 To the Eternal Throne. 
 The walls of I^ew Jerusalem, 
 
 Where precious stones abound, 
 Within their twelve foundations 
 
 These chosen names are found : 
 
 There Matthew, James and Andrew, 
 
 Philip and John, beloved, 
 Thomas, and son of Alpheus, 
 
 These called and blest — approved ; 
 Saint Simon and Bartholomew, 
 
 And Peter, named a rock; 
 There Thaddeus and Matthias, 
 
 Ordained to feed the flock ; 
 
16 SORIPTUEE WORTHIES. 
 
 Moses and Job and Joshua, 
 
 With the Hebrew children three, 
 "Who at a monarch's bidding 
 
 Bowed not nor bent the knee ; 
 That Shadrach and Abednego 
 
 And Meshech — they who trod 
 The burning, fiery furnace. 
 
 Led by the Son of God ; 
 
 Daniel — the much beloved — 
 
 Whose heaven-directed prayer 
 At eve, at morn, and mid-day, 
 
 Through Chaldea's heathen air. 
 As a cloud of holy incense 
 
 To the mighty God arose. 
 Fearless of death and danger. 
 
 Menaced by envious foes ; 
 
 Samuel, Abraham, and ISToah — 
 
 Each a host of righteousness — 
 Called of God, in service valiant. 
 
 Heights in glory they possess ; 
 Heaven — its word — was found efficient 
 
 For their trust, their guide, their stay ; 
 Faith — her lamp, her hand — was equal 
 
 To begild and lead the way. 
 
SCRIPTrEE WORTHIES. 17 
 
 The princely l^ehemiah, 
 
 Whose pure and noble breast 
 For desolated Zion 
 
 A¥as deeply, sorely pressed ; 
 Grieved for his kindred people, 
 
 Afflicted, lowly bowed. 
 While foes their exultations 
 
 Were haughty bold and loud ; 
 
 The walls of Babylonia 
 
 They witnessed to his tears ; 
 From weary, watchful fasting, 
 
 (While hope conflicts with fears) 
 To the royal hand with trembling 
 
 The kingly cup he gave. 
 As he breathed his supplication 
 
 To God the strong to save. 
 
 Speedily to his petition 
 
 Heaven respondeth — and with care 
 Babylon her king, his treasure 
 
 Proffers to his servant there ; — 
 Jerusalem, that sat lamenting. 
 
 Tearful, low upon the ground, 
 Kiseth now from out her ruins. 
 
 Prayer the timely hand hath found. 
 
18 SCKIPTURE WORTHIES. 
 
 That man of faith, Elijah, 
 
 He hath a mansion there ; 
 And the lone one of Zarephath, 
 
 Who dressed with trust and care 
 Once for the fainting stranger 
 
 Her last remain of bread, 
 When hope, and life, and joy, 
 
 Had all but gone and iied ; 
 
 Famine, with meagre visage, 
 
 In her abode was seen — 
 The fields, with smiling harvest. 
 
 They are no longer sheen ; 
 The wells, alas ! are failing. 
 
 The fountain-springs are dry ; 
 Despairing for the morrow, 
 
 She's at the point to die ; 
 
 The Infinite Compassionate 
 
 His word then magnified — 
 With flowing cruse unfailing 
 
 This hostess is supplied ; — 
 She finds her store replenished, 
 
 Her daily board is spread. 
 Shared with the aged seer — 
 
 And want her door hath fled. 
 
SCRIPTURE WORTHIES. 19 
 
 And there a goodly number 
 
 By sovereign grace reserved, 
 Whose knee bent not to Baal, 
 
 The heathen god they served — 
 They of the house of Israel, 
 
 Lured by the snare, the guise. 
 Of the sprite of dark idolatry — 
 
 The }3rince of death, of lies. 
 
 Jacob, and Ilezekiah, 
 
 And Esther will be there, 
 Who moved the arm Omnipotent 
 
 By ardent, wrestling prayer ; 
 "When hosts of death and danger 
 
 They stood revealed to view. 
 To the seat of sovereign mercy 
 
 With trembling haste they flew. 
 
 Jacob, the care-worn Patriarch, 
 
 By Heaven's supreme command. 
 Is on his homeward journey 
 
 To his loved, his Fatherland, 
 When lo ! with war-like bearing, 
 
 A threat'ning band appears. 
 Led by fraternal hatred. 
 
 The garnered wrath of years. 
 
20 SCRIPTURE WORTHIES. 
 
 Darkness, with sable curtain, 
 
 Hath vailed the midnight sky- 
 The earth, in silent apathj, 
 
 Reveals no helper nigh ; 
 Left with his faith, his fears, 
 
 And with his God alone. 
 He tests, with ardent struggling, 
 
 The promise of the Throne. 
 
 Truth, with her memorial tablet. 
 
 Comes at morn's first breaking hour, 
 Record makes for all the fearful 
 
 Of the prevalence and power 
 Of faith and prayer. 
 
 When the suppliant soul on high, 
 With the heart entire and spirit, 
 
 Sends the eager, trustful cry. 
 
 Blessed of God — surnamed of Heaven 
 
 Israel — he'll yield to fear 
 ]^ot if on the dreaded morrow 
 
 Strife and war they venture near. 
 Blessed of God ! a brother's tears 
 
 Mingled with the drops he shed ; 
 Tenderness and kind embraces 
 
 Told that all but love had fled. 
 
SCRIPTURE WORTHIES. 21 
 
 The haughty Syrian tyrant, 
 
 Blasphemous, proud, and bold, 
 That many lands and nations 
 
 His sword had long controlled ; 
 The Lord — Lord God omnipotent. 
 
 Ruler of earth and skies. 
 The God of Hezeldah — 
 
 This idolater defies. 
 
 The impious aggressor 
 
 His banner broad, profane, 
 "Waves at the very threshold ; 
 
 To-morrow he may stain 
 (Unbid of Heaven) the hearth-stone. 
 
 The altar and the ground. 
 Oh, the bitter cup of trembling! 
 
 'Tis passing round and round. 
 
 Sad Judah ! now her nobles 
 
 In sackcloth they appear ; 
 Her king, her priests, and princes, 
 
 Their robes have rent ; and Fear, 
 Her chilly wand, ungracious. 
 
 On every heart is laid ; 
 And the daughters of Jerusalem 
 
 Their seats in dust have made. 
 
22 SCRIPXrRE WORTHIES. 
 
 Heaven-serving Hezekiah 
 
 To the holv Fane repairs ; 
 Before the seat of Mercy 
 
 He spreads the nation's cares. 
 With prayer and supplication 
 
 For help divine appeals ; 
 And the Infinite — Eternal — 
 
 A timely arm reveals. 
 
 'lis night ; and the invader's 
 
 Battalions are at rest — 
 The strength of Great Jehovah 
 
 They're marshalled for to test ; 
 Heaven's angel of stern judgment 
 
 The threatening camp swept o'er. 
 And the legions of Sennacherib 
 
 They live, they live no more ! 
 
 Esther, her heavenward piety 
 
 And truth, they shone more sheen 
 Than that empyreal diadem 
 
 That made her Persia's Queen ; 
 As stars amid the darkness 
 
 Of idolatry's thick night, 
 They stood unawed, reflecting 
 
 A lucid, saving light. 
 
SCEIPTUKE WOETHIES. 23 
 
 Daughter of captive Israel, 
 
 She weeps her j^eople's grief ; 
 To the Lord — the Lord Jehovah — 
 
 First looketh for relief ; 
 Wrath, envj, and idolatry, 
 
 A ruthless, fearful band, 
 The life of her loved kindred 
 
 Most madlj thej demand. 
 
 'Tis set, the kinglj signet. 
 
 The Mede and Persian seal, 
 Unyielding as the adamant, 
 
 Decreed the Hebrew's weal ; 
 The land is filled with mournino". 
 
 The loud, unceasing cry 
 Of grief and lamentation, 
 
 It reach eth to the sky. 
 
 Despair, her leaden mantle. 
 
 She comes to fold, to spread 
 Around the lonely sorrowing 
 
 That peace and hope hath fled 
 Decrees of Medo-Persians, 
 
 By tyranny when given, 
 By pity, bribe, or justice. 
 
 Their clasp may not be riven. 
 
24 SCEIPTURE WORTHIES. 
 
 Esther, as cliose of mercy 
 The oppressed now to lead, 
 
 Children and heirs of Abraham 
 
 , She calls with her to plead ; 
 
 With God the covenant keeping, 
 Their Father, King, and Friend, 
 
 Her faith took hold on Heaven — 
 Heaven did deliverance send. 
 
 Enoch, Joseph, and Josiah, 
 
 Spirits choice when known to earth, 
 (Names to live in sacred story. 
 
 Heaven alone may speak their worth) ; 
 From these lower vales of evil. 
 
 Death, and sin, and grief, and care, 
 These, the Lord, when tried, accepted. 
 
 Welcomed to his presence there. 
 
 Enoch, here of truth begirded, 
 
 Walked with God in holy fear, 
 Grace divine forbade the tyrant. 
 
 Death, his form to venture near ; 
 Yesterday — to-day — forever, 
 
 Tiie Almighty One the same. 
 Looking on his self-found ransom. 
 
 Took him, for his sake, his name. 
 
SCKIPTFKE WORTHIES. 25 
 
 Joseph, who the bitterest hatred 
 
 Eecompensed with love so pure, 
 Met with chaste, unbending virtue, 
 
 Guilty passion's deadly lure ; 
 "Who, in Egypt's perjured prison, 
 
 Bore the fetters' stern control. 
 Till the crude, the barbed iron. 
 
 Wounded deep his truthful soul. 
 
 Zealous king, the young Josiah, 
 
 Prince of Judah's royal line, 
 Deferent to the spirit-teaching 
 
 Of The Book — the law divine — 
 Summoned people, priests, and prophets, 
 
 New to covenant with the Lord, 
 And to scribe his name to honor, 
 
 Pledge to his commands his word. 
 
 Judgment's righteous sword and scepter, 
 
 When they filled his useful hand. 
 Dark idolatry her altars 
 
 Place had not in Judea's land ; 
 Institutes, divine and ancient, 
 
 Reassume their justful place ; 
 God accepts the free oblations. 
 
 On the nation showers his grace. 
 
26 SCRIPTURE WORTHIES. 
 
 En OS there with his compeers. 
 
 First assemblage, as we read, 
 That upon the Name Eternal 
 
 Called — His grace, His care to plead ; 
 These by spirit breath illumined, 
 
 Builded bowers for prayer and praise, 
 Now where faith is lost in vision, 
 
 Life and love inspire their lays. 
 
 Saint Paul, the great Apostle, 
 
 His crown is there put on, 
 The coronal of victory 
 
 Which valiantly he won ; 
 In hope of life eternal 
 
 He watched, and fought, and died, 
 "With faith's efficient armor 
 
 Girt by his war-worn side. 
 
 And when the mighty chaii:ipion 
 
 Of the gospel, of the cross. 
 Who earth her riches, honors, 
 
 Counted as dust, as dross. 
 His mission-course had finished 
 
 (He knew to die were gain). 
 Then he joined the martyr army 
 
 On Heaven's triumphant plain. 
 
SCEIPTUEE WOKTHIES. 27 
 
 There David, the sweet Psalmist, 
 
 Whose harp of thrilling lays, 
 It wearied here not ever 
 
 In God's most worthy praise, 
 Has joined the raptured choir, 
 
 And there no plaintive line 
 Discords the glorious melody, 
 
 Supernal song divine. 
 
 Elizabeth and Hannah, 
 
 And Phoebe will be found 
 There with the shining company, 
 
 Where joys supreme abound ; 
 Hannah that brought her Samuel, 
 
 Thank-offering lovely, fair, 
 And with God the Giver left him, 
 
 To remain forever there. 
 
 Elizabeth, the righteous. 
 
 Whose walk, secure from blame, 
 A long enduring halo 
 
 Hath cast around her name ; 
 The pen of inspiration. 
 
 On its most holy page. 
 Records her high ensample 
 
 For each ensuing age. 
 
28 SCEIPTTJEE WORTHIES. 
 
 And the venerated Lois, 
 
 Whose faith and love, unfeigned. 
 With Eunice and with Timothy, 
 
 Her children, early gained 
 Such honorous memorial. 
 
 As pupils who acquired 
 The saving scripture knowledge, 
 
 Of the Book of Books inspired. 
 
 With that ancient, honored handmaid 
 
 Of God, that led with song 
 The daughters glad of Israel — 
 
 Triumphant, joyful throng ! — 
 The long-remembered Miriam, 
 
 The prophetess whose feet 
 The hanks of Heaven's deliverance 
 
 Were favored first to greet.. 
 
 With consecrated timbrels 
 
 Heaven's wonders they rehearse. 
 Speak forth the glorious praises 
 
 In most exalted verse 
 Of the Lord their strength, Redeemer, 
 
 Whose arm was bared to save ; 
 That o'er the foes of freedom 
 
 Thus timely sent the wave. 
 
SCRIPTURE WORTHIES. Q9 
 
 And that queen of song, 
 
 That mother in Israel that rose, 
 That Deborah immortal 
 
 Who the defiant foes 
 Of her nation, long despondent, 
 
 Led with the trusty sword 
 Of the Lord, the great Deliverer — 
 
 His never-failing word. 
 
 Phebe, who the Church Cenchrean 
 
 Served with such untiring care, 
 And her board in loving-kindness 
 
 Spread for fainting ones to share ; 
 Who with hands of timely succor 
 
 Ready stood to cheer, and blessed 
 Such as want or persecution. 
 
 Grief or sorrow, there oppressed. 
 
 And the Thyatirian Lydia, 
 
 That by Macedonia's wave 
 Met the messengers of Jesiis, 
 
 Found the word to heal, to save. 
 Strong in faith, her pious spirit 
 
 Dedicates her all to Heaven ; 
 And to house the wrongful prisoned 
 
 Her protecting roof was given. 
 
30 SOEIPTURE WORTHIES. 
 
 The well of life immortal, 
 
 They shall unceasing share, 
 "With every child of Mercy 
 
 That gave with Christian care, 
 In name, for sake of Jesus, 
 
 The needful alms — the draught — 
 If but one cup of water 
 
 That thirsty lips may have quaffed. 
 
 With the Marys who the Crucified 
 
 Sought at the early tomb. 
 And would with costly spicery 
 
 The sepulchre perfume ; 
 Who by the cross of Calvary, 
 
 Deep sorrowing, lingered last, 
 In soul-dissolving tenderness. 
 
 Till his agony was past. 
 
 And with Mary, too, of Bethany, 
 
 That chose the better part. 
 The knowledge of Christ — of his love — 
 
 And sat at his feet in fullness of heart ; 
 That hung on his lips 
 
 Till his life-giving word 
 Her spirit entranced 
 
 Till her soul to its center was stirred. 
 
SCEIPTUEE WORTHIES. 31 
 
 Mary the " highly favored," 
 
 AVhose purely virgin breast 
 
 The holy infant Jesus 
 
 VV ith love and wonder pressed ; 
 
 Mother of the humanity 
 
 Of Christ the Lord, who came, 
 
 Sent of the Eternal Father 
 
 Salvation to proclaim. 
 
 To heal the broken-hearted, 
 
 The prisoner to release. 
 
 ■ To preach the gracious gospel 
 
 To the poor, this Prince of Peace 
 
 (Of the Everlasting Father), 
 
 God's co-eternal Son, 
 
 Of man the form and fashion 
 
 He meekly here put on. 
 
 That heart of hearts maternal, 
 
 That soul received the sword, 
 
 The spear, the ruthless weapon 
 
 That pierced her son — our Lord — 
 
 When earth its rocks were rended, 
 
 And darkness veiled the skies ; 
 
 When he atonement finished 
 
 By vicarious sacrifice. 
 
32 SCEIPTTJRE WORTHIES. 
 
 Daughter of God, blest Mary, 
 
 By grief unique liere pressed. 
 In heaven, the highest heaven, 
 
 Her sorrows are redressed ; 
 Of its store of boundless joy 
 
 She'll forever there partake, 
 With all that watched, and labored, 
 
 And wept, for Jesus' sake. 
 
 l^aomi, E-uth, and Huldah, 
 
 And Anna there appear. 
 Attired in kindred costume, 
 
 Though once of varied sphere. 
 Ages remote their stories 
 
 Of earth and time divide, 
 Now hand in hand they're ranging 
 
 The fields of bliss heaven wide. 
 
 That stricken one, E"aomi, 
 
 And the Moabitess Ruth, 
 Her tender widowed daughter. 
 
 Whose filial love and truth 
 Her heathen gods and people 
 
 In cheerful hope resigned. 
 To trust the God of Israel, 
 
 A home and heaven to find. 
 
SCKIPTUEE WORTHIES. 33 
 
 The noble, queen-like Huldcah, 
 
 That medium of the word 
 Of truth divine — of judgment — 
 
 Of God — that deeply stirred 
 That long revolted nation 
 
 To penitence and prayer — 
 A once heaven-fearing people, 
 
 The Lord's peculiar care. 
 
 Anna, daughter of Phanuel, 
 
 Blest -of God and sanctified, 
 One who long her home, her dwelling, 
 
 Made his altar mere — beside 
 Tarrying hopeful, watchful, waiting 
 
 Till the promised Shiloh came ; 
 Favored first to see redemption. 
 
 First the Saviour to proclaim. 
 
 Dorcas, and every sister 
 
 Of sweet charity, that blessed. 
 In earth's lone vales of sorrow. 
 
 The aggrieved, the sick, the oppressed ; 
 The bread that on the waters 
 
 They cast with tender care, 
 In heaven they find it garnered, 
 
 For each a worthy share. 
 
34: SCRIPTUEE WOETHIES. 
 
 The Baptist, honored messenger, 
 The Mighty to proclaim, 
 
 Ordained to preach repentance 
 With mention of his name. 
 
 The nations who will sprinkle 
 Not from the tjpic flood. 
 
 But with spirit-drops of mercy- 
 Price of his precious blood. 
 
 Here Prophecy, no greater 
 
 Of names adorns her page 
 All through the ancient era 
 
 Of seers and of sage ; 
 High and more high beatitude 
 
 Will fill his spacious soul, 
 While the cycles of eternity 
 
 They onward, onward roll. 
 
 Devout and ancient Simeon, 
 
 Whose long-expectant sight 
 Beheld the Lord's salvation, 
 
 The Christ, the risen light, 
 When the infant Mediator 
 
 His eager arms had pressed, 
 He craved a speedy passport 
 
 To heaven — to life — to rest. 
 
BLENDING OF EARTH AND SKIES. 35 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE TRANSFIGURATION. 
 
 Jesus to favored Tabor 
 
 A chosen few he led, 
 For high commune with heaven 
 
 He prays — its light is shed ; 
 A flood of immortality 
 
 Adorns his form — his face ; 
 A cloud — Divine Shekinah — 
 
 It sanctifies the place. 
 
 While Moses and Elias 
 
 In gloiy they appear, 
 The habitants of heaven 
 
 In secret counsel here 
 With the Son, the well-beloved, 
 
 Of God, the only wise ; 
 E'en here the earth and earthly 
 
 Are blending with the skies. 
 
 Moses, the given minister 
 
 Of the Law so perfect, pure. 
 Strict, holy and unyielding, 
 
 A tablet to endure ; 
 Word of the Lord Almighty 
 
 That may not pass away. 
 Though earth, all things created, 
 
 They perish and decay. 
 
36 THE O ERSHADOWING CLOUD. 
 
 Elias, representative 
 
 Of prophecy, whose word 
 Pillars of death and darkness 
 
 Long mightily hath stirred ; 
 Whose voice of heavenly numbers 
 
 Hath pierced so oft the gloom 
 That would the soul have curtained 
 
 As by the hopeless tomb. 
 
 An apostolic triad 
 
 In waiting for the hour 
 
 When from the cross — the sepulchre- 
 In resurrection power — 
 
 The Christ, Jesus the Saviour, 
 Shall their commission seal, 
 
 The knowledge of redemption. 
 To bear — to preach — reveal. 
 
 Justice divine and mercy. 
 
 Their envoys there appear. 
 The o'ershadowing cloud of glory 
 
 Its brightness thrills with fear 
 The faithful, loved disciples. 
 
 Though fain they'd tarry there, 
 And for each a tabernacle 
 
 Would hasten to prepare. 
 
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 PEOMISED MANSIONS. 37 
 
 Lo ! I am with you alwaj, 
 
 Thus saith the sinner's friend, 
 Lo ! I am with you alway, 
 
 E'en until time shall end ; 
 Go, break the bread of heaven, 
 
 My flock to bless, to feed — 
 Go, sow beside all waters 
 
 Of truth the holy seed. 
 
 Go with the gospel proffer 
 
 Of grace, of life, of heaven. 
 Proclaim my free salvation. 
 
 They shall be saved, be shriven ; 
 All, every true believer. 
 
 Baptized in spirit here. 
 In resurrection beauty. 
 
 In glory shall appear. 
 
 For my beloved a mansion 
 
 In heaven I will prepare, 
 And I'll come and will receive you 
 
 To dwell forever there ; — 
 I will not leave you comfortless. 
 
 To you I soon will send 
 The Holy Ghost, the Comforter, 
 
 A long abiding friend. 
 
38 INFINITE LOVE OF GOD. 
 
 The leaves, they never wither 
 
 On heaven's life-giving tree, 
 For healing of the nations 
 
 They're sovereign and they're free ; 
 Love's aroma exhaling 
 
 To meet the soul's desire, 
 The air, the breath of paradise, 
 
 They permeate entire. 
 
 Eternity! Eternity 
 
 Is equal but to prove 
 The length, the breadth, the fullness 
 
 Of Grod's inherent love ! 
 Himself the spring, the fountain, 
 
 Its hight and depth is known • 
 But unto him that shareth 
 
 The Father's heavenly throne. 
 
 For that vast, that swelling ocean, 
 
 'No measurement is found 
 To tell of its expansion — 
 
 It hath not shore or bound. 
 Oh ! love divine, the portion. 
 
 And of ransomed ones the song. 
 Thou hast the harps of heaven 
 
 Strung: for the blood-bought throng. 
 
EVEELASTING TIES. 39 
 
 In heaven our dear departed 
 
 They watch and wait to greet 
 From earth the new-fledged spirits 
 
 That raptured fly to meet 
 The welcome soul inspiring, 
 
 Where union's lasting ties, 
 The hand so dread and weighty 
 
 Of death shall not surprise. 
 
 Oh no ! they are not severed 
 
 The cords so closely wound, 
 The heart of pure aft'ection 
 
 In sacred bands around. 
 The plants of heavenly germ an. 
 
 They were not set to pine. 
 But in new soil transplanted 
 
 To flourish, grow and shine. 
 
 The flowers of passing beairty 
 
 That love parental gave. 
 All faded, crushed and blighted 
 
 To cold, untimely grave. 
 There by the living water 
 
 Again they sweetly bloom, 
 Oh in heaven ! we learn in heaven 
 
 There's known no fearful tomb ! 
 
40 SWEET HOME. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 CHRISTIAN'S HERITAGE. 
 
 A home, " sweet home," is heaven, 
 
 And from its lasting store 
 I^ow copious showers of manna 
 
 Fall by the pilgrim's door ; 
 Ready prepared of mercy, 
 
 A daily rich supply 
 That hungry gath'ring spirits 
 
 May find a portion nigh. 
 
 Heavfen is revealed a heritage, 
 
 'Tis Christian's by bequest, 
 He'll meet not there one claimant 
 
 His title to protest ; 
 'Tis fadeless, incorruptible, 
 
 Of God had in reserve 
 For all the washed, the sanctified. 
 
 Who Christ accept and serve. 
 « 
 The heavenward, home-bound traveler 
 
 Scarce heeds the stony way— 
 'Tis here and there a way-mark 
 
 Forbids his steps to stray. 
 While pressing onward, upward, 
 
 He hath by faith a share 
 Of that bread of life unfailing, 
 
 Free and abundant there. 
 
KAYS FROM ZION S HILL. 41 
 
 And when his adversary 
 
 His path would fain obscure, 
 On wings of heavenly kindness 
 
 To lead, to guide, to assure, 
 Some angel-minist'ring spirit 
 
 With speed of thought then flies 
 And stays the faint and trembling 
 
 To struggle for the prize. 
 
 He shall not walk in darkness, 
 
 Though sin and foes malign. 
 His march for to bewilder 
 
 Their forces all combine. 
 His face is set for Zion,j 
 
 And from that heavenly hill 
 The rays are all-sufficient 
 
 The King's highway to fill. 
 
 He hath for shield and buckler 
 
 A way what shall not pass ; 
 'T will ward the pointed arrows, 
 
 Yield not with steel or brass — 
 'Tis Truth, the truth of heaven. 
 
 It will his trust abide 
 Until his last stern conflict 
 
 By Jordan's swelling tide. 
 
42 THE SAINT S DEPARTUKE. 
 
 And should that fearful river 
 
 Appal his heart, his sight, 
 Athwart the n earing billows 
 
 Beams forth most cheering light 
 From the shining coast of Canaan, 
 
 That land of heavenly rest, 
 "While he finds his dying pillow 
 
 His loving Saviour's breast. 
 
 'Tis going fast, receding, 
 
 Earth's unpropitious shore. 
 Its griefs, its frowns, its snares, 
 
 Are Christian's now no more. 
 Hark ! hark ! a gentle whisper 
 
 By that low, passing breath : 
 " I hear the harps of Heaven ; 
 
 Can this, can this be death ! " 
 
 Joy ! joy ! to be delivered 
 
 From earth, from throbbing clay; 
 Angels their waiting pinions 
 
 Have spread, have borne away 
 The soul, free and triumphant. 
 
 Where no dark surge may come. 
 Safe to the bower eternal — 
 
 To God, to heaven, his home. 
 
A STAMP OF IMMOETALITT. 43 
 
 A more than mortal presence 
 
 There rests amid the gloom 
 Of death's cold, darkened chamber, 
 
 The hushed, the silent room 
 Where rests our dear lamented ; 
 
 We weep, then smile to trace 
 An impress set of heaven 
 
 On the beloved face. 
 
 There comes sweet, sacred memories 
 
 Of Christ, the words he spoke 
 Of his most precious promises 
 
 Which never may be broke : 
 " I am the resurrection 
 
 And life ; I'll come again — 
 Will to myself receive you 
 
 With me in heaven to reign." 
 
 That envoy sent of mercy, 
 
 The messenger that came. 
 The saint's discharge from bondage 
 
 To witness, to proclaim — 
 The watchful, waiting prisoner, 
 
 Of hope for to release — 
 Through the abode of mourning. 
 
 Breathed balm of heavenly peace. 
 
4i RAPTUROUS GREETINGS. 
 
 Faith, her ears attuned of heaven, 
 
 Catch the welcome notes sublime : 
 Welcome home ! welcome, thrice welcome ! 
 
 Echoed round the blissful clime ; 
 "Words of love, of rapturous greeting, 
 
 Language of that kingdom bright, — 
 All but sees with sense of vision 
 
 The departed's robe of white. 
 
 Mantled, all bedecked, attired 
 
 In that righteousness complete, 
 Wrought of Christ, he finds it read j 
 
 For eternal rest his seat. 
 There no voice, no hand invasive, 
 
 Shall disturb his gladsome place ; 
 Not one cloud shall pass between him 
 
 And his dear Kedeemer's face. 
 
 There forever and forever 
 
 May he unforbidden gaze ; 
 There employ his harp all golden 
 
 To repeat the Saviour's praise. 
 Listening, learning, loving, feasting, 
 
 At the banquet drinking free, 
 Where there's room and cups o'erflowing, 
 
 Unbeliever, waiting thee. 
 
there's eoom for all. 45 
 
 Yes, for all the lost, the fallen. 
 
 Each and every child of sin, 
 There's a kingdom, crown and heaven 
 
 For the willing soul to win. 
 Armor, all-efficient weapons, . 
 
 Tempered equal for the field. 
 And the Son of God, the leader. 
 
 His own hand thy head shall shield. 
 
 Tarry not, fly ! seek the covert 
 
 Of that Eock that will not fail ; 
 Speed thee on, on to the mountain ! 
 
 Dangers thick beset the vale. 
 Hope, and life, and peace, and heaven, 
 
 Every tra,veler hath found. 
 Who, to seek the better country. 
 
 Left the world's enchanted ground. 
 
 Joy is there enhanced in heaven, 
 
 When with undivided heart. 
 Won by Holy Spirit whispers, 
 
 Sinners penitent they part. 
 Glad from every faithless refuge. 
 
 Bringing cares and doubts and fear. 
 And the seat of sovereign mercy 
 
 With their burthens venture near. 
 
4:Q THE EVERLASTING GOD. 
 
 THE EVERLASTING GOD. 
 
 '' JSven from everlasting to everlasting thou art GodP 
 
 Earth, with all she now may boast, 
 Honor, beauty, gold, or name ; 
 Though her scenes are flat'ring, gay, 
 Soon must perish, pass away. 
 
 Mammon with his gorgeous towers, 
 ^Nations with their pride and powers, ■ 
 They must know how time can bring 
 Consternation on his wing. 
 
 Music with its wondrous charms. 
 Pleasure with bewildering arms, 
 Every plant and tree and flower 
 Fades in her low, transient bower. 
 
 Desolation soon shall smile 
 On the ruin, funereal pile, 
 Tomb of this terrestial ball, 
 Wrap'd in dark oblivion's pall. 
 
 But forever, evermore, 
 Christ, the Life, the Way, the Door, 
 Lives, the God of truth and grace, 
 In the Holy, Holy Place. 
 
THE EVERLASTING GOD. 4:7 
 
 Where he entered with his blood, 
 Covenanted with our Grod, 
 Once for sin atonement given — 
 Off 'ring for our peace, and heaven. 
 
 Lamb of God, He that was slain 
 E'er foundation jet was lain 
 Base for this the world so wide. 
 He the fount of life supplied. 
 
 Then the counsel of the skies 
 Heavenly wisdom did devise 
 For yet uncreated man. 
 Love's most holy, glorious plan. 
 
 To redeem and save with care 
 Him who should the livery wear 
 Of the high immortal coast 
 When by Satan led and lost. 
 
 God, before whose eye and throne 
 Time no measurement hath shown, 
 He with one unbounded view 
 Looks Eternal Ages through. 
 
 And in his omniscient sight 
 Countless years are as the flight 
 Of the fleeting hour, the day. 
 Minute sands that will not stay. 
 
48 THE EVERLASTING GOD. 
 
 Everlasting as that throne 
 His salvation shall be known ; 
 Earth and heavens may ]3ass away, 
 But his word it never may. 
 
 Blessed words of truth he spake 
 For his owm beloved's sake : 
 You a home, a mansion there, 
 I am going to prepare. 
 
 There on heaven's eternal ground, 
 Where no withering blight is found, 
 Death and sin have never seen 
 The unfading pastures green. 
 
 AYhere your shepherd he will keep. 
 Lead his flock, his church, his sheep ; 
 There beside the waters pure 
 As the fount itself secure. 
 
 Saved, and sanctified, and blest, 
 'Made partakers of that rest 
 That forever shall remain 
 Long as God liimself shall reign. 
 
 He who gives ns this abode 
 
 Is the Everlasting God ; 
 
 " Christian's " hope, and strength, and boast. 
 
 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 
 
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