Eternal Life by Christian Intelligencer

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 7, 1886

Eternal Life.

By Christian Intelligencer

How WE prize the life that now is—this mortal life; this life of uncertainty; this life that is fast fleeting away; this life with all its environments, with all its limitations, with all its aches and pains and disappointments! How, withal, we love this life; how we long to retain it; how we would like to invest it with immortality, and dwell here forever; how loth we are to part with it! With what reluctance, with what unavailing protests, we yield to the inevitable!

Yet this life to which we thus cling is not worthy of mention in comparison with the life possible to us and promised to us; the life we have even now, and shall have forevermore, if we have Christ—a life unlimited; a life that has all eternity for its fuller expansion; a life that knows no aches, no pains, no disappointments, no death. Is it not strange that so many may be found who have no appreciation of it, no deep yearning for it, who so little prize it that they refuse it when it is freely offered them without money and without price?—Christian Intelligencer.