Seasons and Life’s Opportunities

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 19, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 24.

Seasons and Life’s Opportunities

THE seasons pass quickly by, and our opportunities with them. And so it is with the years of our lives. Looking forward, what a long, bright, and happy vista of seasons we see. What wonders of accomplishment. But looking backward, from the end of our journey, what a changed look life has. There is a lesson in all this which is easily learned, and he who learns it in the spring of life, need not, when the last sad hour comes, mourn with Byron, but can with Paul, contemplate the past with a degree of satisfaction, and the future with that confidence which is the possession of those only who know they have been faithful subjects of the great King.—Sel.