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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 20, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 20.

The Book of Life

By John Kendrick Bangs

By John Kendrick Bangs in "Munsey's"

Each day in life is like a spotless page That comes to us for writings, vain or sage; Upon its face that which we say or do Is written down—the false, the good and true.

Each year a chapter is that tells the tale Of joy or grief, success or failure pale— In sickness and in health, ambitions, fears, Our good and evil deeds, our smiles and tears: And at the last a book the record stands— The history of self, by our own hands— By self alone made, bound, and fully writ, No word, or thought, or deed escaping it.