Man Is Like Grass

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 6, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 32.

Man Is Like Grass

Yet such is man—as the grass. Such he has been all the ages,—tender, frail, weak, pliable, vacillating, bending before every wind, and dying in a few days of old age. To what has any one of them amounted apart from God? Call the long roll of the ages: Nimrod, Alexander, the Pharaohs, Homer, Cicero, Cæsar, Shakespeare, Ingersoll, and many more who have achieved world-wide fame, eminent in statecraft, in tyranny, in war, in letters, in oratory; they have passed away as the grass, and have left no permanent stamp upon the world for good. "They all do fade as the leaf."