The Wanderer

Pointed warnings on the use of time by the great statesman, William Wilbeforce, from his A Practical View of Christianity:

Yet thus life rolls away with too many of us in a course of shapeless idleness. Its recreations constitute its chief business…amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, to fill up the void of a listless and languid life; and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy. Even old age often finds us pacing in the same round of amusements which our early youth had tracked out.

May God grant us grace that we who are his people not wander through life so pointlessly.