Eternity
" O sweet echo on the pilgrim's way Thrice welcome message from a land of light ; As through a clouded sky the moonbeams stray, So on eternity's deep shrouded night. Streams a mild radiance from that cheering word, 'So shall we be forever with the Lord'." What a volume is contained in these two words,"For Ever.!" To think that after ages have rolled by , still I shall be but on the threshold of immortal being , on the confines and outskirts of limitless life. My lifetime commensurate with that of God Himself. His throne is the centre of my bliss, eternity the circumference. "O Eternity !Eternity! " says one who has now entered on the reality. " it is thine to crown the joys above . Thou art the knot which bindeth the bundle of life together. Without the thought of thee, dim sadness would not spare the faces of the blessed; their songs would be marred with dreadful discordance, and all the blissful bowers would lose their charms." ...