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Church A year compared to a Book- Christian witness and Advocate A year may be compared to a book. Every day is a leaf, and every seventh leaf is the Sabbath.The last day of every year finishes a volume, and every new year's day commences a new one. On one page of every leaf is written our opportunities for doing and getting good and on the other, our improvement of them. On one page God's dealings with us; on the other, our behavior toward him. On one page of every seventh leaf, the Sermons we hear, the books we read, and the opportunities for retirement, and for mental and spiritual improvement; on the other the use we make of these opportunities. Some of our readers have finished eight, some ten volumes, and perhaps some eighteen or Twenty- They are all arranged in the great universal library, waiting for the sound of the last Trumpet, when they will be brought forth and read before an assembled world. What frightful and alarming records will then be exposed, blanks, blots, crimes and errors, and crimes of every sort, according to the size of the volumes. Which of us would not shudder to have our annual volumes audibly read, or even to look into them ourselves. We have now just completed another volume; it is already sealed, and added to those before in the library. No alteration can now be made. We cannot examine, erase, and revise it, as we do other books What is written, is Written, and we must meet it at the Last day as it now stands. All we can do is to regret what is wrong in the past, and amend it in the next volume, if we are spared to finish it. I could not anticipate with composure the day when my books shall be read, were it not that in every page on the last few volumes I have written Christ Crucified.