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Christ’s Soldiers and Watch-Tinkers

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 8, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 34.

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Christ’s Soldiers and Watch-Tinkers

A SOLDIER who went to war took with him some of the small instruments of his craft (he was a watch-tinker) thinking to make some extra shillings now and then while in camp. He did so. He found plenty of pottering, and almost forgot that he was a soldier, so that one day, when ordered off on some duty, he exclaimed: “Why, how can I go? I’ve got ten watches to mend!” Some Christians are so absorbed in self-seeking that they are ready to say to the Master’s call, “I pray thee have me excused.”—They are nominally soldiers of Christ, but really only watch-tinkers—they keep back part of the price.—Sel.