YEARS by Eliza H. Morton

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 16, 1877

YEARS

By Eliza H. Morton

The great Author of creation, with infinite wisdom, has “placed lights in the firmament of the heaven, . . . for signs, and for seasons, for days, and years.” If our lives were not marked by the revolving years, we should have nothing to remind us of the swiftness of time; but as it is, each successive year is a guide-board to eternity.

The following is a fit revery for the gliding years: “The years, how they have passed! They have gone, as clouds go on a summer day. They came, they grew, they rolled full-orbed, they waned, they died,—their story is told. Years that have wrought upon us in thought and deed with the force and power of eternity, years whose marks we shall carry forever, have been dissolved like dew, and their work is finished.”

Though the years of our lives be many, they will, if misspent, prove our eternal ruin. But, if rightly used, they will prove the greatest of blessings; for with them we may win the “eternal reward.” If our lives are crowned with God’s love, and our days spent in his service, then our “years shall not fail,” and in the new earth we shall go up to Jerusalem from year to year “to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.”

ELIZA H. MORTON.

Allen’s Corner, Me.