Love Will Never Grow Old

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Palace Ruins at Mitla, Showing Colored Mosaics.

Juan Teotihuacan was the religious city of the white-skinned Nephites?

Salt Lake City, Utah.

Love Will Never Grow Old.

[The Old Folks' annual grand festival of the South Sanpete stake of Zion was held September 18, 1909, at Manti. As usual, it was a very- happy gathering and a success in every way. The verses herewith were sung by the veteran author on the occasion. Many of our readers will remember Patriarch C. C. A. Christensen as among the first who became members of the Church in Denmark. He was baptized September 26, 1850, and after strenuous missionary work, came to Utah in 1857. He is the most widely known writer of verse and prose among the Scandi-

navians of Utah. In the Danish hymn book are found many of his sacred poems, and he has been a constant contributor to Bikuben and Skan- dinaviens Stjerne, the Danish- Norwegian Church organs of the Latter- day Saints. His poems are full of the spirit of vigor and cheer, and are often humorous, while his hymns breathe the spirit of the gathering, the

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glory and freedom of Zion, and the sympathy and pathos of a soul full of faith in the work of the Lord. Editors.]

With old friends, today, we assemble, To greet one another once more Tho' some now are feeble, and tremble, Yet love makes us strong as before. Love will never grow old, Nor will friendship wax cold, With those who are faithful and true; But in heaven above friends will greet you And give welcome, when here we are through.

chorus: Love will never grow old, nor will friendship wax cold, But in heaven we'll our union renew; And in mansions above, friends will greet us. And give welcome, when here we are through.

The springtime of youth we remember, With its blossoms and sunshiny days; But old age, like the days of December, Have few of sun's beautiful rays; Yet the sun is "still there, And the blossoms that were, We shall find on that beautiful shore; And the friends which we lov'd ^ There will greet us — And then they will leave us no more.

There is rest for the faint and the weary, And the future is cheerful and bright; No night was so dark nor so dreary But that it again became light When the clouds disappear, And thelcoastline is clear, Our flowers we shall see them again; Then with joy on the shore we shall greet them, And with lov'd ones forever remain. Ephraim, Utah. Carl C. A. Christensen.