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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 18, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 19.

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Life's End

By Robertson

"It is finished." We are ever taking leave of something that will not come back again. We let go with a pang, portion after portion of our existence. However dreary we may have felt life to be here, yet when that hour comes—the winding up of all things, the last grand rush of darkness on our spirits, the hour of that awful sudden wrench from all that we have ever known or loved, the long farewell to sun, moon, stars, and light—brother man, I ask you this day, and I ask myself, humbly and fearfully, what will then be finished? When it is finished, what will it be? Will it be the butterfly existence of pleasure, the mere life of science, a life of uninterrupted sin and self-gratification; or will it be, "Father, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do?"