Everyman’s Hut

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 152, 11 December 1942, Page 4

Everyman’s Hut

Up, up, my soul,, the long spent time redeeming;, Sow thou the seeds of better deeds and thought; Light other lamps while yet thy lamp is beaming— The time is short. Think of the good thou might’st have done, when brightly The suns to thee life’s choicest season brought; Hours lost to God in pleasure passing lightly— The time .is short. If thou hast friends, give them thy best endeavour, Thy warmest, impulse, and thy purest thought, Keeping in mind and word and action ever—- . The time is short. — Prentiss. Looking forward from the days of childhood and youth, old age seems far away, and the days pass slowly, but looking back from maturity the youthful days are just behind and the years seem to fly. In the days of time in which to do i everything that youth there appears to be so much we would, but with the advancing years comes the realisation of so little accomplished, so much yet to be

done, and so little time in which to do it To-day there is more for each,to do than ever before, if the world is. to be made a better place to live in. We know that the Bible tells us that men VTirTTVpmKBDVMMBaMMBHHnMkBnNraHHMri shall become worse and worse and that there will be no peace — real peace—on the earth until Christ shall come and reign in righteousness. But this knowledge does not give the liberty to sit back and say, “Well, what’s the use ? Things are going to get worse so why try to make them otherwise Rather does it place a responsibility upon every one that names the name of Christ to be working to expand His Kingdom—to help some one out of .darkness into light. — to fight against the odds, no matter how overwhelming. “The time is short.” Does not the very conditions in the world to-day show that the time is getting shorter, so that our efforts should be redoubled. No use in thinking of what might have been . done. Yesterday’s opportunities have gone beyond recall. To-day’s are here for our use. Time may run out before to-morrow’s opportunities arrive— let us “work while it is yet day, for the night cometh when no man can work.” EVERYMAN’S THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK. Even virtue is no longer such if it; be stagnant. A man’s life should be as ever-fresh as the river: the same channel, but a new water flowing every instant. . z / :