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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Apr 6, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 14.

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Time's Lesson.

By Phillips Brooks

“Brethren, the time is short.” There is the fact forever pressing on us. Behold, it is no dreary shadow hanging over our heads and shutting out the sunshine. It is an everlasting inspiration. It makes a man know himself and his career. It makes him put his heart into the heart of the career which he knows to be his. It makes the emotions and experiences of life great and not petty to him. It makes life solemn and interesting with criticalness; and it makes friendship magnanimous, and the desire to help our fellow-men real and energetic. It concentrates and invigorates our lives. In the brightest, freshest, clearest mornings, it comes to us, not as a cloud, not as a paralysis, but as a new brightness in the sunshine and a new vigor in the arm.—Phillips Brooks.