p. 5 | THINGS TO SEE

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 6, 1881

THINGS TO SEE.

If we but saw how the gates of opportunity open and close, how the possibilities of to-day neglected, become to-morrow the things which never can be done; how unused strength wastes away and brings up behind it no other strengths; how the grace that lies about all our occasions, ready to flow upon them at the touches of our diligence, slighted, lifts itself up into the heavens and leaves us in hardness and death; how on the other hand, when used it drops upon us like the rain and distills like the dew; how work done makes work easier; how the voluntary use of "all that is within us" and without us, too, of soul and sinew, of love and thought, of time and strength, and hours of prayer, will bring upon us the gentle pressures of God's newest, freshest grace. If we but saw such things as these what girdings there would be among us.