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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 20, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 12.

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OLD TRUTHS.

By Bonar

It is not beauty, it is truth we seek, And it is truth that men would fling away, Because its outward garb is rude and homely. Yet truth is beauty, best of beauty here; And beauty is but hidden truth unfolded, Like blossoms from the rough, brown buds of spring.
No age Can outgrow truth, or can afford to part With the tried wisdom of the past, with words That centuries have sifted, and on which Ages have set their seal, and handed down From venerable lips of solemn men, Who learned their wisdom in a graver school, And in an age of keener, sorer conflict Than we have known in this gay holiday, When truth and error are but things of taste, Changlings of fashion, altering year by year.
Guard then those ancient walls, those living springs, Of which our fathers drank and were refreshed. Guard then those ancient palms beneath whose shade Our fathers have sat down, and of whose fruit They ate and went upon their way in peace.—Bonar.