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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 20, 1857

Moments Lost.

EVERY other property when lost may be replaced, when it is injured, can be repaired.—But did ever man or angel recover one moment of lost time? He alone is the traveler who never halts, never turns back; no tears can soften him, nor prayers make him relent; little recks he of the truest penitence, or the most heart-broken sobs of sorrow. As vainly would we set about to recall one yesterday, or beg yonder stream, whose waters keep rushing on, to roll back a single wave. When the reckless hand of passion has torn out half the leaves of the life-blood to light its own fires, and we count with trembling fingers the few that remain, then indeed how solemn the thought that no power on earth, none in heaven, can replace a single lost moment. God may heap up years as he appears to have done in the earliest periods of the race, may prolong indefinitely the sojourn of any single soul in any one of his many mansions, but only by obliterating memory could he destroy the consciousness of any polluted day.