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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 15.

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Wakeful Hours.

By Fanny Fern

THERE is something beautiful as sublime in the hush of midnight. The myriad quiet sleepers, laying down each their life burden, insensible alike to joy or sorrow; helpless alike—the strong man as the infant—and over all the sleepless Eye, which, since the world began, has never lost sight of one pillowed head. Thoughts like these come to us in our wakeful night hours, with an almost painful intensity. Then eternity only seems real, and every-day life a fable. But morning comes, and the stir and hum of life chase them away, as the warm sun dries up the dew-drops, which like these thoughts performed their reviving mission, ere they departed.—Fanny Fern.