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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 46, No. 7.

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Too Late.

Some are always too late, and therefore accomplish through life nothing worth naming. If such a man promises to meet you at a certain hour, he is never present until thirty minutes after. No matter how important the business is, either to yourself or to him, he is just so tardy. His dinner has been waiting for him so long that the cook is out of patience. This course, the character we have described always pursues. He is never in season at church, at his place of business, at his meals, or in his bed. Persons of such habits, we cannot but despise. Scores have lost opportunities of making fortunes, and receiving favors, by being a few minutes too late.
Always speak in season, and be ready at the appointed hour. We would not give a fig for a man who is not punctual to his engagements, and who never makes up his mind to a certain course till the time is lost. Those who hang back, hesitate, and tremble—who are never on hand for a journey, a trade, or anything else, are poor sloths, and ill-calculated for getting a living in this stirring world.—Sel.