“The time is at hand, and the unjust shall perish,
The filthy shall filthy remain,
The righteous shall still with more righteousness glitter,
The holy his pureness retain.
“Behold, I come quickly, let all this remember,
My righteous reward is with Me;
And surely to each one will I give a portion,
According as his works shall be.
“As I am the Alpha, so I am Omega,—
The First and the Last and the All;
And he who puts trust in the Offspring of David,
Shall stand and shall nevermore fall.”
The Bride and the Spirit together are saying:
“Oh, come to Him, thirsty one, come!”
And he who will hear it, and he who will have it,
May drink of that water from Home.
Once more He who testifieth all these things saith:
“Surely I will speedily come.”
My heart, with a longing response, gives the answer:
“Even so, Lord Jesus! oh come!”
Rev. F. J. Ochse.
EZEKIEL XLVII. 1-12.
And I saw a little stream
Come trickling out from underneath the altar;
And as it rippled sunward with glad psalter,
It sparkled in its beam.
A tiny stream it was
As it issued from the threshold of its home;
But with growing bulk and power to overcome
The sandy desert, it became at length,
A mighty river, glorious in its strength,
O’er which I could not pass.