A LIVING YEAR by Mary G. Slocum

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 10, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 10.

A LIVING YEAR.

By Mary G. Slocum

Why cry so many voices, choked with tears, “The year is dead?” It rather seems to me Full of such rich and boundless life to be, It is a presage of eternal years. Must it not live in us while we, too, live? Part of ourselves are now the joys it brought. Part of ourselves is, too, the good it wrought In days of darkness. Years to come may give Less conflict, less of pain, less doubt, dismay, A larger share of brightness than this last; But victory won in darkness that is past Is a possession that will far outweigh All we have lost. So let us rather cry, This year of grace still lives: it can not die! —Mary G. Slocum.