RETROSPECT OF A YEAR

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 8, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 2

RETROSPECT OF A YEAR.

TIME, by moments, steals away, First the hour and then the day! Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years; Thus another year is flown, And is now no more our own (Though it brought or promised good) Than the years before the flood.

But each year, let none forget, Finds and leaves us deep in debt; Favors from the Lord received, Sins that have the Spirit grieved, Marked by God's unerring hand, In his book recorded stand; Who can tell the vast amount Placed to each in our account?

We have nothing, Lord, to pay, Take, O take our guilt away! Self-condemned, on thee we call; Freely, Lord, forgive us all. While we have another year, May we spend it in thy fear, All its days devote to thee, Living for eternity.

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