Your ShelfYour Projects

WHAT IS THY LIFE?

20%

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 8, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 40.

Read the full edition

WHAT IS THY LIFE?

By Catharine Y. Glen

BY CATHARINE Y. GLEN.
WHAT is thy life, that thou shouldst toil and plan, And struggle with the "moth and rust," For a poor handful of earth's dust, O heart of man? A spark that glimmereth an instant in the dark— A breath that quivereth ere it is lost in death— A power that reigneth for an hour— Is this thy life?
Wilt thou find comfort in the name of Destiny? Or say that Fate's unceasing wheel Hath whirled thee into being, and will still bear thee along? One, and One only, standeth on the verge Of the eternal silence—One Who doth ever whisper to thy doubting soul, "Trust and be strong!"
—N. Y. Observer.