Suggested by some of the last words of S.T. recorded in “Gospel Gleanings” for February, 1927, also some sweet thoughts expressed by him at a conference. “Whenever you do a thing for HIM, in goes a stitch into the marriage garment.”
“The marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready...And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of saints.”
Revelation 19:7, 8.
The marriage of the Lamb! Oh happy people we,
Who have a share in glory, eternally to be;
Who form a part of His own church, for whom He gave His life;
When the Marriage Day takes place above, she’ll be the Lamb’s own wife.
She’ll be brought to Him in garments that her own hands have made.
In linen fine and beautiful His bride shall be arrayed;
‘Tis everything she did for Him, when she was here on earth;
And every stitch she wrought for Him, He’ll see it in its worth.
In raiment of fine needlework His bride shall be arrayed,
In raiment of fine needlework that her own hands have made;
But, before she wears the garment on the glorious Marriage Day,
Her Lord’s own Hands have taken every spot and stain away.
I am very, very happy, but the tears I cannot stay,
When I think of those who have Him not, in this salvation’s day!
He wore upon His blessed Brow the wreath of cruel thorns,
He was the Man of Sorrows, Whom the world rejects and scorns.
I am very, very happy, but, oh, the tears will flow,
When I think of men and women, boys and girls, who treat Him so;
When I think of those who stay outside, when they might be within;
If they won’t have my Saviour, they must perish in their sin!
Yes, sinner, yes, we weep for you, though you never wept for sin;
We weep that you’re outside the Door, when you might be within!
Oh, Jesus says, “I am the Door,” “I am the living Way,”
Oh, sinner, won’t you come to him? Now is salvation’s day!
“A brand plucked out of the fire” (Zechariah 3:2).