Look for the Way-Marks

Look for the way-marks as you journey on,
Look for the way-marks passing one by one;
Down through the ages, past the kingdoms four—
Where are we standing? Look the way-marks o’er.

Refrain

Look for the way-marks, the great prophetic way-marks,
Down through the ages, past the kingdoms four.
Look for the way-marks, the great prophetic way-marks;
The journey’s almost o’er.

First, the Assyrian kingdom ruled the world,
Then Medo-Persia’s banners were unfurled;
And after Greece held universal sway,
Rome seized the scepter—where are we today?

Refrain

Down in the feet of iron and of clay,
Weak and divided, soon to pass away;
What will the next great, glorious drama be?
Christ and His coming, and eternity.

Refrain

Author: Franklin E. Belden

Year: 1886

This Adventist hymn based on Daniel 2's prophetic kingdoms (Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, and the divided feet of iron and clay) is a well-known work of F. E. Belden, a prominent 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist hymn writer and nephew of Ellen G. White. It first appeared in the 1886 Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal.