p. 108 | The Old Well

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 24, 1877

The Old Well.

“THERE was a well near here,” said a bystander, “and very good water used to come from it, but it has been filled up for a long time.”

“Indeed! I never knew there was a well here, much less tasted the water. How did it get filled up?”

“Neglect, sir. Some rubbish got in, then part of the surrounding soil; and, as it was not cleared out at once, it got worse and worse till it is as you see it—quite choked up. I wonder if there is any water at the bottom?”

These last words set me thinking. I wonder if there is any water at the bottom? I thought how much this old well was like some Christians. The Lord Jesus spoke of the life he gives to the believer as “a well of water to him,” (John 5: 14); but are there not many who are supposed to be Christians in whom we do not see any water; and of whom we can say, as of this old well, “I wonder if there is any water at the bottom?”