The Old-Fashioned Bible
By Albert Carey
The old-fashioned Bible, with its old-fashioned lore,
Its Maker eternal, and its Christ to adore,
Its sin and its Saviour, aye, its cross and
its crown,
Is the Bible forever, sin never can drown. Its tale of creation, of the Deluge and
tower,
Its Sinai thunder, its miraculous power,
The beginnings of nations, their story fore-
told,—
All this is a treasure not to reckon with
gold. And when the fierce fighters have their
last battle fought
Against the great storehouse of the In-
finite thought,
It o'er the great billows of the tempest and
tide,
In glory and honor, will triumphantly ride. Then stand by the standard, which for
ages has stood
For all that is holy, truly lifting, and good.
And let its great teachings as your ad-
vocate stand,
And with it you'll triumph in the victory
grand.