SOMETHING TO SET US THINKING.
Ninety years lience not a single man or woman now twenty years of age will be alive. Ninety ! alas, how many lively actors at present on the stage of life will make their exit long ere ninety years shall have rolled away ! And could we be sure of ninety years, what are they? "A tale that is told a dream, an empty sound that passeth on the wings of the wind away and is forgotten. Years shorten as man advanceth in age. Like the degrees in longitude, man's life declines as he travels towards the frozen pole, until it dwindles to a point and vanishes for ever. . Is it possible that life is of so short tion! Will ninety years erase all the golden names over the doors in town and country, and substitute others in their stead I Will all tiie now blooming beauties fade and disappear, all the pride and fashion, the love, hope, and joy, pass away, and be forgotten ? " Ninety years," says Death ; "do you think I shall wait ninety years ? Behold, to-day and to-morrow, and every day are mine. When ninety years are past, this generation will, have mingled with the dust, aud be remembered not !"
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 227, 13 January 1877, Page 2
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