A Scrap | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 7, 1871

A Scrap.

Some people are ever sighing over glorious dreams forever fled, grandeur and happiness passed away; pining for the return of hours gone by. If they would but spend the time thus wasted, or worse than wasted, in some useful occupation for mind and body, they would be far happier, and would find but little time to think of those scenes long since passed away, and numbered with the “used to be.” They would look hopefully to the future, and life would be then a pleasant journey.

This life is, in a great measure, what we make it. If we are hopeful and cheerful, cares and disappointments fail to annoy us; for we are ever looking to the future for brighter days. If we are desponding and gloomy, every little ripple upon the stream of life seems to us a mighty wave, and we look, expect, and are really disappointed if we fail to see dark clouds fill life's blue sky and a heavy storm arise.

Cheerfulness, hopefulness, charity, and contentment are safe-guards against all the petty annoyances of this life. Let us ever cherish them—and when the death summons comes, we can meet our Heavenly Father with the consciousness of a well-spent life while on earth.—Sel.