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THINGS LOST FOREVER

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 3, 1859

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 13, No. 11.

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THINGS LOST FOREVER.

The following words from the pen of Lydia H. Sigourney are full of instructive meaning:
"Lost wealth may be restored by industry; the wreck of health regained by temperance; forgotten knowledge restored by study; alienated friendship smothered into forgetfulness, even forfeited reputation won by patience and virtue; but who ever looked upon his vanished hours, recalled his slighted years, stamped them with wisdom, or effaced from heaven's record the fearful blot of wasted time. The foot-print on the sand is washed out by the ocean wave; and easier might we, when years are fled, find that foot-print than recall lost hours."