LENGTH OF DAYS by Eliza H. Morton

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 23, 1879

LENGTH OF DAYS.

By Eliza H. Morton

In this degenerate age few attain to the appointed years of man. The man in the prime of life, the youth in the vigor of his strength, and the infant of tender years, alike lie down in the silent grave. Men skilled in the arts and sciences have vainly sought for the “elixir of life,” but human power is all unavailing in its attempts to lengthen out the brittle thread of human existence. Spurious remedies for every known disease exist, but no mortal physician has dared to attempt or pretend to recall the breath of life after it has left the body.

A good old age may be attained by regarding the laws of health, and it is the duty of all to so care for the body that life will not prove a burden. Happy are those who “sink into the grave like a shock of corn fully ripe.”

This life, at best, is short and fleeting; but soon the Lifegiver will open the graveyards of earth and satisfy the righteous with length of days forever and ever.”

ELIZA H. MORTON.