WHAT IS YOUR LIFE ?

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 1000, 15 May 1903, Page 3

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE ?

1 "Life is an irrevocable thing. We have lately finished an irrevocable year.' (swe loQk back upon it, every thought and word and act of it is there in its place, just as we left. There are alt the Sabbaths in their places, and all the well-spent days or ill-spent days between. There is every sin and every wish and every look still in its own exact surroundings, each under its own day of the month, at the precis 3 moment of the day it happened. We have left it. all. But, remember, we have left it exactly as it stands. No single hour of it nan be changed now, no smallest wish isan be recalled, no angry word taken back. We cannot gather up these days and put, them back into Time's breaking v*a and 'live them over again. They are spilt upon the g.-ound, and the g^eat stream of Time has sucked them up, and cast them already on the eternal shores among all byprone years, and there they bide till I ad's time comes, and they comebac'- one by one, ?n order as they went, to meet us again and Him before the Judgment Bar. Life is more than an irrevocable thing, it is an unceitain thing—so certainly uncertain that it v ceuain we shall not all be here to see tMs year close. What means. the grim image in the Bible of the weaver's thread " Suspended in the an*, and the blade of the lifted knife just touching it with its edge." It means that you must die./ ihe thread of your life is to be.cut. The kDife may De lifted now, the keen blade just touching it, one pressure; of the hand and it is done. One half, left urinished, still hanging to the past—the other, dropped noiselessly into eternity. Oh! life is en abruptly closing thing. It is not as grass. In the morning it groweth up and flourisheth; in the evening it is cut dowii and withereth. Is your life ready for the surely falling knife, for the Eeaper who elands at your door? Have you heard that there is another life—a life which cannot die, a life which, I:nked to your life, v.l" make the past still bright with pardon and the future rich with hope ? This life is in God's Son " . '

Henry Drtjmmond.