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It Is Not a Bad Illustration

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 16.

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It Is Not a Bad Illustration

It Is Not a Bad Illustration.—It is said that "Longfellow was ashamed that he wrote 'Excelsior.' He tells of a young man toiling up and up, ever with the desire to gain greater heights. And the higher you get the colder it is. At least he got higher, and met—death." And that is about the result of men's aspirations without God. The heights of fame and wealth and power and knowledge are cold and lifeless without divine love. But divine love walks in the lowliest places of earth, yet it has Christ the Lord for company.