--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Christensen, Carl C. A. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 13 number: 1 published: 1909-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Carl C. A. Christensen, "Love Will Never Grow Old," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 1 (November 1909): 67–68.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1301unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1301unse start_page: 67 end_page: 68 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1301unse publication_year: 1909 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Love Will Never Grow Old THE PYRAMIDS OF THE SUN, MOON AND STARS. 67 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 — —— ; 68 IMPROVEMENT ERA. 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.