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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 15, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 46.

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ETERNAL GROWTH.

THERE is no dead-line while growth continues. Therefore, as has been well said, a man's permanent usefulness is conditioned by his power to grow. When growth stops, usefulness stops. But growth is not a matter of bodily strength alone. Altho the bodily powers must fail, some men give increasing evidence of their growth in qualities that shall outlast the body. Dr. Trumbull, when in the abounding strength of his intense nervous and muscular vitality, used to say laughingly that the Lord knew his temperament too well ever to make him a "shut-in," for he never could stand that. Not many years later the Lord tested him with just that trial, and for three years of partial physical helplessness the growing character that knew no "dead-line" gave evidence of continued growth at a point where its possessor had been sure he would fail if tested. If growth is checked in one direction, it must appear in another.—S. S. Times.