Time to Think It Over

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 6, 1909

Time to Think It Over

TIME for thinking out a right course is just as much needed as time for following that course. A little boy who, not unlike grown folks, had been thoughtlessly making trouble for other people, was taken to task for his doings, and was in a melting mood, having been urged to think more about what he would do. “I wonder,” said he, in the wisdom of his six years, “when I am going to get time to think about this. I guess I’ll think about what I’ll do in school at breakfast time. Then at recess I’ll think about what I’ll do at home in the afternoon.” And the boy went to bed and to sleep. In the early morning he crept into his father’s bed, saying, softly, “Father, I’ve been thinking about that,—you know!” The father did know. He was not surprised, when night came again, to find that the little boy had had a better day. And thinking-time is needed by the man and woman and little child alike.—Sunday School Times.