p. 139 | ETERNITY by Eliza H. Morton

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 3, 1877

ETERNITY

By Eliza H. Morton

The word eternity suggests to the mind something hard to comprehend. Time prolonged forever is so different from our short lives that it is not strange finite mind cannot fathom it. We can imagine what a few hundred years of life would be; and when we consider that it would take a man thirty-one years to count a billion, counting at the rate of one a second and taking no time for food or rest, and that even Adam if he had lived and counted until this time could not have counted a trillion, then we get some idea of numbers. Letting each number represent a year we get a faint idea of time prolonged, but when we think that eternity cannot be expressed by numbers then we become overwhelmed. This is the will of the Infinite, and it is enough for us to know that eternity is something boundless as space and endless as the circle of the heavens.

It is pleasant to think that not only the time of the saints is to be eternal, but this peace, this bliss, this inheritance and every thing promised them are eternal. This thought ought to inspire us with courage, renew our strength, and make our hearts sing for joy. Oh! the rapture of an eternal home! a household never broken by death! Heart-aches and weariness of flesh never known!

In the land of Beulah the music will never cease; the glory never fade; the rapture never end; but forever, even forever and ever, a spring of happiness will overflow every heart. ELIZA H. MORTON.