Life Is Short, and Much to Do
By T.
It is said of one of the great inventors of this time, that on a certain occasion he was walking to dinner with one of his associates, and neither of them was saying anything. They were simply walking along thinking. Suddenly the inventor broke into a run, saying as he did so, "There is an immense amount to be done, and life is very short." The inventor in question, sad to say, believes that there is no almighty God, the infinite Creator of all things. He has expressed himself as believing that when death comes to man, it ends everything for him; that when his breath leaves his body, he is nothing more than a lump of clay, that will never be revived by a resurrection, and that there is absolutely no life for man beyond the tomb. This inventor has delved deeply into useful sciences all his life. He has been in continual touch with the mighty forces of creation, and yet he has shut himself away from recognizing the Creator. How sad it is that such a life should contain such a void! To make no mention of the life that is beyond, what indescribable joys, even in this life, is this man shutting away from himself! But still this same man, with no hope after death, can feel the weight of the value of time. "There is an immense amount to be done, and life is very short." Every true Christian feels this same impulse of the value of time, only he feels it to an intensified degree. The trouble, however, is that there are so many who do not allow Christianity, with its mighty power, really to take hold of the life. And hence there is a vast army who merely make a profession, and who only count in the census, but who really know nothing about the Christ of the living God. All who actually know the Master, will realize that time is very short, and that there is an immense amount to be done. T.