JESUS CHRIST >> SECOND ADVENT
SDAH 205
The golden morning is fast approaching;
Jesus soon will come
To take his faithful and happy children
to their promised home
Text
1
The golden morning is fast approaching;
Jesus soon will come
To take his faithful and happy children
to their promised home
Refrain
O, we see the gleams of the golden morning
piercing thro’ this night of gloom!
O, see the gleams of the golden morning
that will burst the tomb.
2
The gospel summons will soon be carried
to the nations round;
The Bridegroom then will cease to tarry
and the trumpet sound.
3
Attended by all the shining angels,
Down the flaming sky
the Judge will come, and will take his people
where they will not die.
4
The loved of earth who have long been parted,
Meet in that glad day;
The tears of those who are broken hearted
shall be wiped away.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) Matt 25:21 (c) Matt 24:14; 25:5; 24:31 (d) Rev 21:4; Isa 61:1
Author
S.J. Graham
Metrical Number
10.5.10.5.Ref.
Composer
S.J. Graham
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Recommended Reading
There are three things I can say about “Gleams of the Golden Morning.” That is, it’s one of those obscure oldie-but-goody kind of hymn. Why do I say that? Here’s why.
I say it’s an oldie because it was written and published way back in the 1880s.
It first appeared in a hymnal called Gates of Praise: for the Sabbath-School, praise service, prayer-meeting, etc. compiled by United Brethren ministers Isaiah Baltzell and Edmund Lorenz in 1880. It was one of the four hymns included under the category “Second Advent.”
Notes
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Both words and music of this gospel song of the Second Advent were written by S. J. Graham about whom we have no information. The song was first printed in Gates of Praise, Dayton, Ohio, 1880, and was included in the SDA Hymns and Tune, 1886. This tune, unnamed, consists, with one solitary exception, of two chords and their inversions only.
-from Companion to the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal by Wayne Hooper and Edward E. White
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