Never too Slow

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 17, 1907

It is wonderful how much one's feelings have to do with the way time seems to pass. If one is in a hurry to finish something by a certain hour, the minutes seem to fly too fast. If one is waiting impatiently for the hour to strike, the very seconds seem to creep. Is it not so?

“I am sure that clock is too slow!” cries Harry, waiting for the time to come when he may go out on a promised pleasure trip.

“No, my boy, the clock is not too slow. Your feelings are too fast, that is all,” mama says. “You are in a hurry, but that does not hurry the clock. It goes on just the same, and at the right time it will strike.”

It is one of the hardest things in the world to be patient when one wants a thing very much. One may be wishing earnestly for something that is really a good thing, but he wants it now, and wonders why he must wait. There are young people who are in a hurry to be older, to be grown up, and to have the things that they think will belong to them then. They can hardly wait.

It is a great blessing that God does not allow his good things to be snatched before the time. Everything that is good is coming as fast as he thinks best. As one has wisely said, “God's clock is never too slow.”—Selected.