THE OLD YEAR AND NEW by Mrs. M. P. Veysey

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, January 6, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 1

THE OLD YEAR AND NEW.

By Mrs. M. P. Veysey

BY MRS. M. P. VEYSEY.

The old year's gone forever, no longer can it stay; The few short months of '84 have quickly fled away: While all its sunny hours, its shadows dark and drear, Have swiftly sped before the tread of another glad new year.

We're on the ocean sailing, our bark is ne'er at rest; Now tossed by angry billows high, now lulled upon its breast. We're lost in sad reflection; the scenes that come and go Are passing now before us with their funeral step and slow.

Oh, the thoughtless words we've spoken, the deeds we've left undone; “We have not walked with Jesus,” this is the bitter sum. Thou tender, loving Saviour, in shame we bend the knee, Oh strengthen us from Zion—we then shall mighty be.

We praise thee, loving Father, our voyage will soon be o'er; Soon we shall rest forevermore on yonder peaceful shore. By faith we see the city; its battlements how fair! The king in beauty we behold, and all his glory share.

Lord Jesus, mighty Captain, our pilot o'er life's sea, Into the unknown waste before, we calmly sail with thee. O Holy Father, grant us to do thy righteous will, Amid the storm and breakers wild to hear thy “Peace, be still.”

Battle Creek, Mich., Jan. 1, 1885.