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THE NEW FOR THE OLD

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 2.

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THE NEW FOR THE OLD.

By Frances E. Bolton

Bury the sorrow and sin of the past, Bury the wo, Let God's kind mercy now over them cast The snow of forgetfulness, falling as fast As the flakes of the snow.
Nature will bury the past things away,— Bury the old. The sere falling leaves, in their mystic decay, She weaves into blankets for buds of the May On the dark, hidden wold.
Chastened of heart for the sorrow of old, Lift up thy face. Angels are near thee with pinions of gold; Look to their hope-light, and as you behold, Change to their grace.
Wonderful love, O most wonderful love, Cometh to you! God will most gladly the old life remove, That He may send to you new from above, The pure and the new.
FRANCES E. BOLTON.