This, Too, Shall Pass Away

"Heaven and earth shall pass away,

but My words will never pass away."

Matthew 24:35

In these uncertain and perilous times,

Jesus is our Hope and our Comforter

When some great sorrow, like a mighty river,

Flows through your life with peace-destroying power,

And dearest things are swept from sight forever,

Say to your heart each trying hour:

"This, too, shall pass away."

When ceaseless toil has hushed your song of gladness,

And you have grown almost too tired to pray,

Let this truth banish from your heart its sadness,

And ease the burden of each trying day:

"This, too, shall pass away."

When fortune smiles, and full of mirth and pleasure,

The days are flitting by without a care,

Lest you should rest with only earthly treasure

Let these few words their fullest import bear:

"This, too, shall pass away."

When earnest labor brings you fame and glory,

And all earth's noblest ones upon you smile,

Remember that life's longest, grandest story

Fills but a moment in earth's little while:

"This, too, shall pass away."

Then one of the elders of the heavenly Sanhedrin said to me,

"Stop weeping! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root

of David, has won, has overcome and conquered!

He can open the scroll  and break its seven seals!"

Revelation 5:5

"This, Too, Shall Pass Away"

Lanta Wilson Smith

(1856-1939)