p. 9 | THE LENGTH OF A LIFE by Ada D. Wellman

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 27, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 21.

THE LENGTH OF A LIFE.

By Ada D. Wellman

A MERE flash of light, like a midwinter day in the Arctic, It may be that life's day has ended ere fully begun; Been vailed in the brightness of morning, as when Christ hung dying; Or gone out at noon, as when God placed a sign in the sun; Or, as by the swift-coming night of a northern December, Its course is cut short in mid-afternoon; or its light, For the work of a father or mother in Israel, has tarried, As when, at the mandate of Joshua, day o'er-lapped night. ADA D. WELLMAN.