HE WON’T LET ME by Alexander McLaren

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 4, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 23.

“HE WON’T LET ME.”

By Alexander McLaren

Do you remember the old story about the soldier who shouted out that he had caught a prisoner, and the officer said, “Bring him along,” and the answer was, “He won’t come”? “Then come yourself,” and the answer was, “He won’t let me.” That is the kind of victory over the world that many of our successful people have got—so hampered and held in chains that early noble visions have passed away and are smiled at now, and God and His angels are a great deal farther off from the successful man than they were from the starving youth.—Alexander McLaren.