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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 16, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 18.

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NOT YET.—

By S. S. Gem.

“My son, give me thy heart,” said the Lord Jesus to a little boy.
“Not yet,” said the little boy, busy with his hat and ball; “when I grow older, I will think about it.”
“My son, give me thy heart,” said the Lord Jesus to the young man.
“Not yet,” said the young man, “I am just going into business. When I shall prosper, I shall have more time to attend to the matter.”
Business did prosper.
“My son, give me thy heart.”
“Not yet,” said the man of business; “I am pressed now. When my children are well settled in life, I shall be better able to attend to religion.”
He lived to be an old man.
“My son, give me thy heart.”
“Not yet,” he cried; “I shall soon give up trade, and then I shall have nothing else to do but to read and pray.”
And so he died. He put off to another time what should have been done when a child. He therefore died as he had lived, without God.—S. S. Gem.