DEAF TO AN ALARM | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 29, 1880

DEAF TO AN ALARM.

Not many years ago, a student in Princeton Seminary, desiring to arise early in the morning, bought an alarm clock. For a few days it worked well. But one morning, after being aroused by its alarm, he turned over and went to sleep again. On subsequent mornings the clock failed to awake him. He placed it under the head of his bed in close proximity to his ear. There it awoke him till the next time he disobeyed its summons; ever afterwards it was a failure. He slept through its call with perfect regularity.

Yet, on the other hand, many a mother wakes on the faintest voice of her child, and many a watcher on the slightest movement of the patient. They have trained themselves to heed such calls.

In like manner the conscience may be deadened or trained. Let the Christian disregard its voice, and soon it will become unable to arouse him at all. Let him carefully heed its faintest remonstrance, and it will become to him a most valuable mentor. Take good care of your conscience; it is a most delicate apparatus.—Christian Observer