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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Aug 21, 1913

Editorial

By Editor

The Measure of Life

HEAVEN does not estimate nor measure the value of life by days or years. Above the time factor come in the motives and purposes which possess the soul. Many lives of unusual length have been lived in vain because lived for self and for selfish purposes. Many lives short in years have set in operation mighty and far-reaching influences.

Of Abel the record is that he "being dead yet speaketh." The lives of many today, though closed so far as the record of the world is concerned, are still speaking, and the harvest borne through all the centuries will redound to the credit of the individual through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. The righteous shall eat of the fruit of their doings. Isa. 3:10. Of those who die under the third angel's message it is declared, "Their works do follow them." Rev. 14:13.

No righteous life ever has been or ever will be lived in vain. Let us estimate the value of life, not by its length, but by its consecration to God, by the purposes and motives which possess it, by the manner in which it links itself with the eternal principles of right and truth. Truth never dies, and a life linked with truth and identified with it in God's great purpose is eternal in its destiny and everlasting in its influence.