Are we to believe?

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Are we to believe?

Are we to believe that the same God Who expends thousands of years in slowly fitting this earth for man's habitation, will only allow to man himself a few fleeting years, or months, or hours, as it may be, as his sole preparation time for eternity?

To settle questions so unspeakably great in their issue -questions stretching away to a horizon so far distant that no power of thought can follow them-in such hot haste, does seem quite at variance with our heavenly Father's ways.

Is God's action outside man so slow, and within man so hurried? Is the husk of far more value than the seed? Are thousands of years allotted to fashioning man's earthly home, while for man's spiritual training for eternity, but a few brief years are given, and these so largely broken up by sleep, by work, by disease, by ignorance?

What should we say, to take a homely illustration, of an arrangement allotting 10,000 years to fashioning a man's coat, or building his house, while assigning to his whole education but a few hours? ~Thomas Allin (Christ Triumphant)