The Coming Events

1THE coming events of the kingdom of God,
Cast glory its shadows before;
And my being would leap from its prison'd abode,
And the King in his beauty adore.

2He comes, and the Spirit that lingers below,
In the hearts of the chosen and tried,
Is quicken'd and tells, in its mystical flow,
The approach of the Bridegroom and Bride.

3The love, and the joy, and the peace of the blest,
Like the day-star, arise in the soul,
And we taste the first fruits of the Eden of rest,
And we hasten to enter the goal.

4All glory, all glory, to him that was slain,
Who hath wash'd and redeem'd us to God;
For he cometh with power in his kingdom to reign,
And the earth to his scepter is bow'd.