p. 606 | The Record of Life by John B. Gough

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 8, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 38.

The Record of Life

By John B. Gough

"It is a great thing to be a young man, to have your whole life before you, and to be able to make a clean record if you will. I cannot; my record is behind, and although I would give anything to erase parts of it, it is impossible. You are all like authors, in that you are daily composing something to be inscribed in the book of your lives. But you differ from authors in that while they can revise their works, you cannot. In after life, to look back upon it will either be your greatest pleasure, or else a pain and anguish which you would give worlds to be able to throw off."—John B. Gough.