Advantages of Years.-

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 19, 1869

Advantages of Years.—

You are getting into years. Yes, but the years are getting into you—the ripe, rich years, the genial, mellow years, the lusty, luscious years. One by one the crudities of your youth are falling off from you—the vanity, the egotism, the insultation, the bewilderment, the uncertainty. Nearer and nearer you are approaching yourself. You are consolidating your forces. You are becoming master of your situation. On the ruins of shattered plans you find your vantage ground. Your broken hopes, your thwarted purpose, your defeated aspirations, become a staff of strength by which you mount to sublimer heights. With self-possession, and self-command of all things, the title deed of creation, forfeited, is reclaimed. The king has come to his own again. Earth and sea and sky pour out the largest of love. All the crowds pass down to lay its treasure at your feet.