How to Use a Day | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 14, 1871

How to Use a Day.

“The day,” says the greatest of German poets, “is extremely long if one knows how to appreciate and to employ it;” and in conformity with this maxim was the minute and orderly arrangement which ran through his life, husbanding to the best advantage all the moments of each day. It is said of John Wesley, who accomplished an almost incredible amount of labor, that “when you met him in the street of a crowded city, he attracted notice, not by his band and cassock, and his long hair, but by his face and manner, both indicating that all his minutes were numbered, and that not one was to be lost.” “Though I am always in haste,” he said, “I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake any more than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.” It is not he who works the hardest and the longest, but he who plans his work most wisely, and thus labors to the best advantage, that accomplishes the most. As all our time is measured out to us day by day, that plan of life is the most perfect which includes within itself the most distinct and profitable employment of each day as it comes.—Religious Magazine.