I pass another milestone,
Upon the journey home;
And nearer, ever nearer
The lights of heaven come.
(Romans 13:11 „This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that we should be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.“)

Their light illumes the pathway,
Through all the desert way;
The dawn of morning growing
Into the perfect day.
(Proverbs 4:18 „But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, going on and brightening until the day be fully come.“)

It shone upon my childhood
It showed me self and sin,
It led me to the Saviour,
To peace and joy within.
(Romans 5:1 „Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;“)

It cast its glorious radiance
Into my inmost heart;
Revealing Christ in glory
And with Him there my part.
(John 17:22-26 „(22) And the glory which thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, as we are one; (23) I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and that thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me. (24) Father, as to those whom thou hast given me, I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me, for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. (25) Righteous Father, --and the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. (26) And I have made known to them thy name, and will make it known; that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.“)

Displaying all the fullness
Of God’s unchanging love,
A Father’s love upon me
A Father’s house above.
(John 16:27; 14:2 „(16:27) for the Father himself has affection for you, because ye have had affection for me, and have believed that I came out from God.“ „(14:2) In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, I had told you: for I go to prepare you a place;“)

It showed me Christ the centre
Of all God’s wondrous plan, 
The Object of His counsel –
The glorious Son of Man.
(Psalm 8; Ephesians 1:10 „for the administration of the fulness of times; to head up all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth; in him,“)

It shines upon my manhood
With ever bright’ning ray
Directs the gaze on JESUS
From all of earth away.
(Hebrews 12:2 „looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured the cross, having despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.“)

And till the race is ended
That light my guide will be;
Till hope shall have fruition
With Christ eternally.
(1. Thessalonians 4:17 „then we, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we shall be always with the Lord.“)

Edification, 1928 p. 4