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The Future

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 23, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 2.

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The Future.

The future is always fairy-land to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane; on either side, bright flowers and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But, by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak, the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived at a desert waste, in the center a stagnant and Lethean lake, over which wheel and shriek the dark-winged birds, the embodied memories of the past