Devoted to the Propagation and Defense of New Testament Christianity
VOLUME 22
October 22, 1970
NUMBER 24, PAGE 9b

"The Saddest Sort Of Life"

The Saddest Sort Of Life That One Can Live,

Is one who always takes, but does not give,

He warms himself by fires of other men,

But never learns, `tis time he should begin.

He's never ready, quite, to go to work,

He'd rather play around, his duties shirk,

He thinks that if he waits, the time will come

When he can have a peaceful, happy home.

He doesn't seem to know he's growing old,

His wife and children, scarcely clad and cold,

He travels on through life, but does not think,

Alas, then comes the end, He's reached the brink.

He's laid away to rest beneath the soil,

But left no plot of ground to show his toil,

He goes, as others go with passing years,

But for this sort, it seems, nobody cares.

There are such men as this, whom you have known,

They never reaped a field which they had sown,

They live on earth for years, but serve it not,

When gone, false tears are shed, and soon forgot.

By Jim W. Middleton, Sr. DeKalb, Texas