Preparation

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"Are we to believe the same God who expends thousands of years in slowly fitting this earth for man's habitation, will only allow to man a few fleeting years, or months, or hours, as it may be, as his sole preparation 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 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 more value than the seed? Are millions 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 those so largely broken up by sleep, by work, by disease, by ignorance?

What should we say of allotting ten thousand years to fashioning a man's coat, or building his house, while assigning to his whole education but a few hours? ~Thomas Allin