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Earth Growing Old

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Feb 6, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 6.

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Earth Growing Old

By Mrs. Pauline Alderman

By Mrs. Pauline Alderman
Earth, trembling with old age, Proclaims her sure decay. Read it on Bible page, And note it day by day — How like a garment waxing old; Soon God her drapery will fold.
We see her very soil, Once fertile, rich, and strong, Now weakened with the toil, And thorns and thistles borne. So heavily the curse does weigh, As crime and sin mark her decay.
The blood of heroes slain Has soiled her grassy sod, And tears and groans and pain Cry constantly to God; And tho His mercy long is lent, Yet never does old earth repent.
Come Thou whose right to reign Has through the ages stood — Come, and Thy children claim — Take to Thyself the good. Our yearning hearts are crying, Come — Come and restore our Eden home.
Mount Vernon, Ohio.