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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 8, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 6.

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AGE LIMIT.

THERE is an age limit in our orchards. Trees sometimes live and bear leaves when they are too old to bear fruit. And some good people think that there is a similar limit of usefulness in our lives—that when a minister, or even a private Christian, reaches a certain age, his only business is to sit with folded hands, and wait for his summons to the higher life. But the inspired psalmist did not think so. He cries in the seventy-first psalm, "Now; also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not until I have showed Thy strength unto this generation." He realized that he had a work to do for God and humanity as long as he lived, and he believed that God would help him do it. And, hence, he writes in the ninety-second psalm, that the righteous "shall still bring forth fruit in old age."—Herald and Presbyter.