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The Minutes

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 21, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 23.

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The Minutes.

We often think and speak of “making good use of our time,” meaning our days, and weeks, and months, and years; forgetting that all these are made up of seconds and minutes. If we waste all our minutes, we waste all the years.
The French have a proverb, “God works by minutes.” His great plans are not wrought out by years, but move through all time, while we are sleeping or trifling, as well as learning and working.
Some people are always complaining that they have not time to read, or study, or think, and that while they are wasting years by casting away the golden minutes as they are given from Heaven.
Red Jacket once heard a wise man say, “I have not time enough!” Looking at him in surprise, the Indian exclaimed, “You have all the time there is, haven’t you?”
Yes, we have all the time there is. God has given us time to work for ourselves and to bless the world; let us catch it, minute by minute, and make such use of it as we wish each moment to record in Heaven.