Luke 21:11: Happy the man who uses right

Happy the man who uses right
Public calamities.
Whose faith in every fearful sight
The l,ord approaching sees:
Famine, and pestilence, and v.ar
Are tokens of that day,
Earthquakes and prodigies prepare
The great Redeemer's way.

Good out of all these ills He brings,
And serves His own design.
While ushering in the King of kings
The heavenly armies oin;
Dissolved the universal frame.
That Jesus may appear.
And nature's dying groans proclaim
Her New-creator here.