'Old age is the harvest of all the years

All earthly life is a time for gathering . Not a day should pass when we do not store up something for the future:

some new bit of wisdom,

some new lesson of Christian experience,

some new word of God to rest upon,

some new joy of pure friendship to warm the heart,

some new strength gotten by overcoming,

some new advance in love or inner beauty.

That is the way to grow wise and godly and helpful.

Old age is the harvest of all the years . A life of summer gathering gives a beautiful, wise, noble, happy, and useful old age.

"They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green!" Psalm 92:14