The Word Eternity by Flavel

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1874

The Word Eternity.

By Flavel

A GENTLEWOMAN of this nation, having spent the whole afternoon and a great part of the evening at cards, in mirth and jollity, came home late at night, and finding her waiting-woman reading, she looked over her shoulder upon the book and said, “Poor melancholy soul, why dost thou sit here poring so long upon thy book?” That night she could not sleep, but lay sighing and weeping. Her servant asked her once and again what ailed her? At last she burst into tears, and said, “Oh! it was one word that I cast my eye upon in thy book that troubles me. There I saw the word eternity. How happy were I if I were provided for eternity!”—Flavel.