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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · February 11, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 9

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THE BREATH OF ELOHIM IS ROCKING THE WORLD.

By V. N. Cudworth

TUNE.—“The Grave of Bonaparte.”
Why is it, God's people look now for a kingdom? The godly man ceaseth, and dim is the gold; Through fables, and errors, the masses are blinded. The breath of Elohim is rocking the world.
Why men, that are steeped in the world and its pleasures, Though callous to warning, in dangers are bold, Do still feel a dread of some terrible judgment? The breath of Elohim is rocking the world.
Why multiplied shipwrecks, the seas wildly roaring, While boats, ships and steamers of beautiful mould, Far better than former crafts, sail on the ocean? The breath of Elohim is rocking the world.
Why earthquakes, and whirlwinds, in direful commotion, Why fire, plague, and famine, are daily enrolled, All bearing their thousands swift down to destruction? The breath of Elohim is rocking the world.
Why is it the nations are constantly arming, An unsettled currency chafing the world; Such an increase of merchandise, so little tilling? The breath of Elohim is rocking the world.
It is only a breath of the terrible fury, A touch of that arm that will mightily roll On his judgments, ’till earth, “it shall reel like a drunkard,” And under its weight of iniquity fall.
V. N. CUDWORTH. Springfield, Mass.