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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 45.

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ETERNITY.

ETERNITY has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies; the world lies down in a sepulcher of ages, but time writes no wrinkle on the brow of eternity. Eternity! Stupendous thought! The ever-present, unborn, undecaying and undying—the endless chain, composing the life of God—the golden thread, entwining the destinies of the universe. Earth has its beauties, but time shrouds them for the grave; its honors, they are but the sunshine of an hour; its palaces, they are but the gilded sepulcher; its possessions, they are toys of changing fortune; its pleasures, they are but as burdening bubbles. Not so in the untried bourn. In the dwelling of the Almighty can come no footsteps of decay—its days will know no darkening—eternal splendor forbids the approach of night. Its glory will never wane, for there is the ever-present God. Its harmonies will never cease, exhaustless love supplies the song.