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An Honest Life

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 10, 1863

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 22, No. 24.

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An Honest Life

AN HONEST LIFE.—The poor pittance of seventy years is not worth being a villain for. What matter is it if your neighbor lies in a splendid tomb? Sleep you with innocence. Look behind you through the track of time! A vast desert lies open in retrospect; wearied with years and sorrow, they sink from the walks of man. You are to leave them where they fall; and you must go a little further and you will find eternal rest. Whatever you may have to encounter between the cradle and the grave, every moment is big with events, which come not in succession, but bursting forcibly from a revolving and unknown cause, fly over this orb with diversified influence.