p. 6 | Life Everlasting

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 19, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 15.

Life Everlasting

MEN hunger and thirst for life. Scant indeed is the life most men live. It is like trying to quench one's burning thirst from a shallow pool of dirty water in the middle of a field where cattle come down to drink and swine to wallow. What is a life worth which is measured by a few thousand dollars, or a little fading glory, or a flickering spark of worldly and sinful pleasure? Yet this is all some men have and all they hope for. They earnestly desire to live longer, but they are painfully conscious that the life they are now living is too shallow and wretched to last. It must go out, and it ought to go out, because it is not fit to go on. Much as they love life, they shrink from wishing that their life shall be everlasting.

What men need is a life so rich, so sweet, so deep, so beautiful, so full of meaning, that it is fit to endure forever. Jesus has it, and He can give it. "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly," saith the Lord. "Whoso liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." They have eternal life in them. "If any man thirst, let him come to Me and drink." "The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life."—Christian Advocate.