Strife no more shall vex creation;
Christ's is now the kingly seat.
Cities, empires, kingdoms, powers,
In one mighty realm divine.
She, the least and last of nations,
Henceforth as their head shall shine.
'Tis thy future glory, Zion,
Glittering in celestial rays,
As the ocean's sun-lit surging
Rolls upon my raptured gaze!
All that ages past have promised,
All that noblest minds have prized,
All that holy lips have prayed for,
Here at last is realized.
--_Orson F. Whitney._
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"Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is
risen upon thee. * * * And the Gentiles shall come to thy light and
kings to the brightness of thy rising."--_Isaiah 60:1, 3._
The sun in its downward course had reached the hazy zone, which, bounded
by the clear blue above and the horizon below, extended around the green
earth; in the west, the round disk of the sun shone through it, and
tinged the landscape with a beautiful, mellow light.
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