Lord, hear my voice. My soul doth wait for the
Lord, more than the sick man who watches for the morning.'
Yes, think,--for it is good at times, however happy one may be
oneself, to think--of all the misery and sorrow that there is on
earth, and how many there are who would be glad to hear that it was
nearly over; glad to hear that the night was far spent, and the day
was at hand.
And even the happiest ought to 'know the time.' To know that the
night is far spent, and the day at hand. To know, too, that the
night at best was not given us, to sleep it all through, from sunset
to sunrise. No industrious man does that. Either he works after
sunset, and often on through the long hours, and into the short
hours, before he goes to rest: or else he rises before daybreak, and
gets ready for the labours of the coming day. The latter no man can
do in this life. For we all sleep away, more or less, the beginning
of our life, in the time of childhood. There is no sin in that--God
seems to have ordained that so it should be. But, to sleep away our
manhood likewise,--is there no sin in that? As we grow older, must
we not awake out of sleep, and set to work, to be ready for the day
of God which will dawn on us when we pass out of this mortal life
into the world to come?
As we grow older, and as we get our share of the cares, troubles,
experiences of life, it is high time to wake out of sleep, and ask
Christ to give us light--light enough to see our way through the
night of this life, till the everlasting day shall dawn.
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