We have the word of the prophets…and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
2 Peter 1:19
Words: Lucy A. Bennett, in Hymns of Consecration and Faith, new and enlarged edition, by James Mountain (London: Marshall Brothers, circa 1902), number 419.
Music: Love Divine (Holmes) Henry J. E. Holmes (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a better photo of Holmes,
Dear Savior, thro’ the far-spent night
We wait and watch for Thee;
The light of earth for us has set
Behind dark Calvary.
We yearn to see the rosy dawn
Whose promise beams afar;
And ever, with expectant hearts,
Desire the Morning Star.
Oh dawn most fair! Oh day most bright!
Across the eastern sky
The Advent-glory soon shall break—
Redemption draweth nigh.
It may be sooner than we think
Shall end the long delay!
It may be that the Bridegroom-King
E’en now is on His way!