I’M considered old-fashioned in these modern days
By the folks who are clever and smart:
Because I believe that the Bible is true
And believe it with all my heart.
I believe man was formed of the dust of the ground
Was created by God, not evolved,
And given dominion o’er all the wide earth,
To exercise rule was he called.
I’m old-fashioned because I believe that man fell
From his place so exalted and high
He took of the fruit of which God had said
“If thou eatest thereof thou shalt die.”
Thus fallen and guilty the man was cast out
From the glory and presence of God.
Man did not “ascend” but he “fell” we are told
In God’s living and unchanging Word.
And God has an old-fashioned Gospel to tell,
To those who are lost and undone.
He so loved the world that He gave His own Son
Who has suffered our sins to atone.
He was raised from the dead by the power of God,
All the claims of God’s law had been met
Received into glory, He’s living on high
He has settled the mighty sin-debt.
I believe it and lo! it brings peace to my soul
To be sure that my sins are forgiven
Thus cleansed by His Blood, and assured by His Word
Brings to me a foretaste of Heaven.
And Jesus the Saviour is coming again
This He promised ere He went away.
Though scoffers can never such promise discern
His infallible Word is my stay.
And then all “the dead in Christ shall arise
With His saints meet the Lord in the air”
Whether dead or alive we shall meet in the skies
His glory forever to share.
So I am contented old-fashioned to be,
For the Bible, that old-fashioned Book
Is adapted to meet every need of my soul
As in faith to the Saviour I look.—Glad Tidings.
“Constant fellowship with Him endears me to His person more and more. Communion with Him in His offices makes Him infinitely lovely. Partaking of His overflowing love, makes it everlastingly precious. And living upon the fulness of these, is the fulness of joy.”—Rev. William Romaine.