The New Year

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 30, 1902

“O good New Year, we clasp This warm shut hand of thine, Loosing forever, with half sigh, half gasp, That which from ours falls like dead fingers twine: Ay, whether fierce its grasp Has been, or gentle, having been, we know That it was blessed: let the Old Year go.”

“O New Year, teach us faith! The road of life is hard: When our feet bleed and scourging winds us scathe, Point thou to Him whose visage was more marred Than any man’s: who saith, ‘Make straight paths for your feet’—and to the opprest— ‘Come ye to me, and I will give you rest.’ ”