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THE NEW YEAR

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 16, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 8.

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THE NEW YEAR.

By S. ELMER

Another year is in the past; What are the shadows it has cast? As weeks and months fleet swift away, What record did they leave each day?
Oh! may it be our fixed design, That eighteen hundred sixty-nine Be well filled up with deeds of love, And fair the record stand above.
May every act, and word, and thought, Be by the Spirit's influence wrought, That we may tell to all around, We to the better land are bound.
Our time is ever on the wing; What changes may one short year bring? Before the next shall come around, Many may sleep beneath the ground.
And soon the last great change will come, The faithful all be gathered home, May we among them then appear, And hail with joy a happy year.
S. ELMER.