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GETTING ON TOO FAST

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 21, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 10.

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GETTING ON TOO FAST

A pious old slave had a wicked master. This master had much confidence, however, in the slave's piety. He believed he was a Christian. Sometimes the master would be serious and thoughtful about religion. One day he came to the old slave, with the New Testament in his hand, and asked if he would explain a passage to him. The slave was willing to try, and asked what it was.
“It is here in Romans,” said the master.
“Have you done all that it tells you to do in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?” inquired the slave, seriously fixing his eye upon his master's.
“No; I haven't,” said he.
“Then you're getting on too fast, too fast, master. Go back to the beginning of the book, do all that it tells you till you get to Romans, and you will understand it easy enough then; for the book says, ‘If a man will do My will, he shall know of the doctrine.’”