What did the Old Orders keep?
What Did the Old Orders Keep? In days of ole when preachers sang And families bent the knee What did the fathers then portend For their children’s lives to be? The nineteenth century preyed upon with industrial pulse Most everyone, to seize with joy the New Order’s course The church foretold its doom and prayed God’s will be done while yet twas day Sunday Schools and picnics came New clothes and bonnets too Next revivals, higher institutions and Foreign missions across the blue Against these changes some who stood Were parted from the rest Planted in their proven ways They were sentenced to a test Could they keep their piety? Could they manage God’s own truth? Could they handle change without? Could they harbor true renown? The Old Order felt the World’s way Was by far a dangerous path They felt it’s evangelicalness Would soon incur God’s wrath So strong they stood for Order And hard they preached for good Long they s...

This is a computer drawing I did for my old blog....
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