“Let
us hear the conclusion of the whole matter,” he wrote: “Fear God, and
keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall
bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be
good, or whether it be evil.” Eccl.12:13, 14.
Solomon's
later writings reveal that
---as he realized more and still more the
wickedness of his course,
---he gave special attention to warning the youth
against falling into the errors that had led him to squander for nought
Heaven's choicest gifts.
With sorrow and shame he confessed that in the
prime of manhood,
when he should have found God his comfort, his
support, his life, he turned from the light of Heaven and the wisdom of
God, and put idolatry in the place of the worship of Jehovah.
---And now,
having learned through sad experience the folly of such a life, his
yearning desire was to save others from entering into the bitter
experience through which he had passed." E.G.W.