1909 Wholesome Words - page 3

"WHAT IS OUR LIFE1?"

to God, has to be spent for Him. �Some of it will go to His needy ones in memory of the One who became poor for our sakes.

Some will go to His servants in imitation of the women who ministered of their substance to the Great Servant. �Some will be spent in the needful expenses of the meeting-place.

And some -- oh, may we not hope, some will yet be found for a

worthy effort to reach the myriads who know not God? �We say a worthy effort, an effort worthy of Him who left His home above, who wandered a stranger in the world His hands had made, of Him whom we call Master and Lord, and we say well, for so He is. �If He, then, our Master and Lord, so did, what ought we to do ?

C. M. LUXMOORE.

" WHAT IS OUR LIFE ? "

of a serious character often come as one year REFLECTIONS draws to a close and another begins. �The passing of days, weeks, months, and years is calculated to remind one of the brevity of life, arid to awaken memories of used or misused opportunities, with their varied feelings of gladness or sadness.

In this connexion the words of the sweet singer of old are seasonable for our consideration : --

" Lord, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is.

Thou hast made my days as handbreadths.

Surely every man at his best state is altogether vanity :

Surely every man walketh in a vain show :

Surely they are disquieted in vain :

Surely every man is vanity. "

-- Psalm xxxix.

The brevity, frailty, and the vain glory of life are thus pre-sented as one answer to the inquiry " What is our life ? " �And of the same it is necessary we should be again reminded, and likewise that it " passeth away, " but " he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. "

" Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, " is a prayer but seldom uttered. The present passing moment occupies the heart so exclusively that little time is