p. 16 | The Brevity of Human Life

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 14, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 11.

The Brevity of Human Life

The brevity of human life ought to be deemed sufficient reason for carefully preserving it and making the most of it. But the great majority, by their manner of life, their intemperate eating, drinking, working, etc., do much in the way of making life even shorter, besides making a poor use of the time they do have. Sadder still, however, is the growing mania for direct suicide, abruptly shutting off the current. As an instance, it is officially reported that in the one city of Cleveland, Ohio, there have occurred eighty-six suicides within the last nine months. And throughout Christendom the tendency toward spiritual suicide, by perversion of the Word of God, is far more marked.