About His Business

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 1, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 26.

About His Business.

The editor of the Sunday School Times tells this story of an earnest man of God, Uncle John Vassar:—

He called at a fashionable home to see a gentleman to whom he had been directed. Not finding the gentleman in, he addressed the wife, who held very different views as to religion from his. In vain she tried to shake him off. He was lovingly persistent for Christ. When the lady’s husband returned, she said, “There has been an old man here, talking to me about religion.” “Why didn’t you shut him up?” asked the gentleman. “He’s a person you can’t shut up,” she answered. “If I had been here, I’d have told him to go about his business.” “If you had heard him, you’d have thought that he was about his business.” And he was. That was his power.