Maytime and Junetime

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 8, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 23.

Maytime and Junetime

These are glorious days through which we are passing in this part of the world. It seems as tho, so far as weather and climate are concerned, that things are as well-nigh perfect as they can be in this sin-cursed earth. A lady who was about to start for Michigan, remarked a few days ago, “I shall have two Mays and two Junes this year.” She had had her May in April and her June in May in the Golden State; she would find them again in Michigan. The beautiful weather recalls the fugitive poem learned when a boy following the plow:—

“If June were always June, And the wild birds sang forever, From four in the morning, their matin tune, And the roses faded never, And the cherries were always ripe, And the great fields red with clover, And all things stayed which are now so dear, And never could come twice over.”

But we need the hot, dry seasons as well in this world of change, to ripen the grass and grain and fruit; and sere leaf and yellowing fields, seen even now in this state, are evidences of promise after all. Therefore, let us be glad for the Junetime, and in the Junetime for all the life and beauty and fragrance which a gracious God showers upon the world, and find in every season its compensations.