THE MEETING-PLACE.

"The ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads."-Isaiah xxxv. 10.

I.

WHERE the faded flower shall freshen,

Freshen never more to fade;

Where the shaded sky shall brighten,—
Brighten never more to shade:
Where the sun-blaze never scorches ;
Where the star-beams cease to chill;
Where no tempest stirs the echoes
Of the wood, or wave, or hill :
Where the morn shall wake in gladness,
And the noon the joy prolong,
Where the daylight dies in fragrance,

'Mid the burst of holy song.

Brother, we shall meet and rest

'Mid the holy and the blest!

II.

Where no shadow shall bewilder,
Where life's vain parade is o'er,
Where the sleep of sin is broken,

And the dreamer dreams no more :
Where the bond is never severed ;-
Partings, claspings, sob and moan,
Midnight waking, twilight weeping,
Heavy noontide,-all are done.
Where the child has found its mother,
Where the mother finds the child,
Where dear families are gathered,
That were scattered on the wild.

Brother, we shall meet and rest
'Mid the holy and the blest!

III.

Where the hidden wound is healed,
Where the blighted life re-blooms,
Where the smitten heart the freshness
Of its buoyant youth resumes.
Where the love that here we lavish
On the withering leaves of time,
Shall have fadeless flowers to fix on
In an ever spring-bright clime.

Where we find the joy of loving,

As we never loved before,-
Loving on, unchilled, unhindered,
Loving once and evermore.

Brother, we shall meet and rest,

'Mid the holy and the blest!

IV.

Where a blasted world shall brighten
Underneath a bluer sphere,
And a softer, gentler sunshine

Shed its healing splendour here.
Where earth's barren vales shall blossom,
Putting on their robe of green,

And a purer, fairer Eden

Be where only wastes have been.
Where a King in kingly glory,

Such as earth has never known,
Shall assume the righteous sceptre,
Claim and wear the holy crown.

Brother, we shall meet and rest,
'Mid the holy and the blest!

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David, throne of, 496

Characteristics of the last days, 153 Darius, 543

Church saved by hope, 517

Chiliasm, apostolicity of, 153

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ditto, 445

66 in the 17th century, 444
Church of Christ, interpreter
God's ways, 7

Coleridge, 531

Coming, the, of Elias, 332
Connexion with the future, 1
Correspondence, answer to, 226
ditto, 231

Correspondents, A Learner, 228

Davidson, 469, 475, 480, 484
Destruction of Antichrist, 244
Difficulties, treatment of, 171
of Disorganization, sign of, 57
Dispensation of the fulness of time,
412

Barker, W. G., 222
Elliott, E. B., 351,

Earnest Inquirer, 351

Harmonies of Genesis and Revela-
tion, 373

Gess's Revelation of Horne's Introduction, 475

Objections and difficulties urged Reviews-Fletcher's Crownless King,
against Millenarianism, 30

72

66

Fleming's Rise and Fall

of the Papacy, 320

66 Frere's Continental Revo-

Chalmers' Scripture Read-

Horæ Biblicæ

Lowe's History of the

Cross, 442

Sab., 204

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Sermons, 326
Institutes, 442

Chiliast, 443
Christianity of Abraham,

Conder's Harmony of His-

Craik's Translation of the
Epistle to the Hebrews, 210
Dallas's Revelation Read-

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ing, 208

Guide to the

Epistles of St. Paul, 436
66 Darby's Letter on the
Lord's Humanity, 209

Examination, 71

Denny's Charts, 328
Hymns, 330

First Resurrection, &c., 73

66 Maitland's

66 Mansford's Sixth Seal and
Seventh Vial, 72

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Macdonald's Thoughts on

Genesis, 205