Our Candle Is Burning Out.
A LITTLE girl was asked one evening why she kept so steadily at her work; whereupon she promptly said: "My candle is almost gone, and I have no other." Her answer was suggestive. Life is the candle; and it, too, is partly gone—it may be almost gone—and we have no other. Because her candle would soon go out, the little girl felt impelled to make the most of it while it should last. What lesson comes from this to your heart, my brother, as you pause at the15threshold of a new year to think of the years gone by, of the work to be done, and of the time before you in which to do it? One thing is sure; some of your candle is gone. It may be the greater part of it is burned out now. Quite an appreciable portion of it has gone since 1907 began, and here it is burning rapidly into 1908. Have you any special work that should be done before your candle goes out? All that is gone has gone forever. You can never again have the opportunities that have been neglected. Whatever we do must now be done in the little time that is left us. If we are dissatisfied with the little we have done, there is only one remedy—fill full all the time we have left. The candle is rapidly burning out and we have no other.
—Sabbath Recorder.