“Time was, is past: thou canst not it recall.
Time is, thou hast: employ the portion small.
Time future, is not, and may never be.
Time present is the only time for thee.”
It is life’s largeness that most discourages earnest and conscientious souls. As men think deeply of its meaning and responsibility, they are apt to be overwhelmed by the thought of its vastness. It has manifold, almost infinite, relations toward God and toward man. Each of these relations has its binding duties. Every individual life must be lived amid countless antagonisms, and in the face of countless perils. Battles must be fought, trials encountered, and sorrows endured. Every life has a divine mission to fulfill, a plan of God to work out. Then the brief earthly course is but the beginning of an endless existence, whose immortal destinies hinge upon fidelity in the present life. Looked at in this way, as a whole, there is something almost appalling in the though of our responsibility in living.
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