Inconsistent About the Future

"O that they were wise . . . that they would consider their latter end!" (Deut 32:29).

Man is strangely inconsistent about the future of eternity. He is always making provision for the future of time. There is not a child at school, not a man in the zenith of his years, or tottering on the verge of threescore years and ten, who is not looking forward to something future in time. How is it that that which seems an instinct of our nature, with respect to time, does not go into the future of eternity—but leaves it unprovided for?

Eternity! where? Is aught worth a care?
Friend, oh, shall we—oh can we e'en venture to dare,
In life that is passing as mist in the air,
Do aught till we settle "Eternity—where?"

"Be ye kind one to another" (Ephesians 4:32).

Life affords but few opportunities of doing great service for others; but there is scarcely an hour of the day that does not afford us an opportunity of performing some little—it may be unnoticed—kindness.

—Bowes