Vacation

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 14, 1867

VACATION.— When Theodore Parker was on his way to the ship which bore him off on the voyage from which he never returned, he said to a friend, in the bitterness of his regret, “If I had bought a saddle horse twelve years ago, or taken real repose in the summer time, I should not have come to this now.” Many later instances, in other walks of life, of the same final crash of strength and earthly hope, have reminded us of the folly of incessant work. It is only too true, as the old proverb declares, “There is rest enough in the grave,” and those will soon be sharing it who decline play, and scorn recreation.