The Duties That Wait by E. J. Haynes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 13, 1879

The Duties That Wait

By E. J. Haynes

There are some duties which should be done to-day, yet they will wait as patients in the ante-room of a physician. The ante-room of many souls is filled with duties that have been waiting, one two hours, another a month, a third a year, and one old, gray duty, leaning on his crutch, says, “Ah, I have waited forty years for audience, and have not yet found it!” Some duties come at last, like the bailiff with his warrant, or the sheriff with his writ; they will follow you and dog your footsteps until you shall give them attendance. There are some duties that can only be done to-day—to-morrow’s duties being those of reparation.—E. J. Haynes.