Is Delay Wise?

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James White · Oakland, California · Jun 25, 1874

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 3.

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Is Delay Wise?

Dr. Spencer, in a sermon upon delay of conversion, says: “Make up a congregation of a thousand Christians. Divide them into five classes, according to the ages at which they became Christians. Place in the first class all those converted under twenty years of age; and in the fifth class all those converted between fifty and sixty. Of your thousand Christians there were hopefully converted under twenty years of age, five hundred and forty-eight. Between fifty and sixty years of age, three. But you ask, Why stop at sixty years old? Ah! well, then, if you will have a sixth class—converted between sixty and seventy years of age—one. Just ONE out of a thousand Christians converted, over sixty years old! What a lesson on delay! What an awful lesson!”