An Hour’s Talk | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 9, 1872

An Hour’s Talk.

John Janway once sat silent, and wrote down in short hand the discourse of some that professed to have a peculiar acquaintance with religion, and afterward read it to them: “Oh!” said he, “to spend an hour or two together, and to hear scarcely a word for Christ, or that brings people’s hearts in love with holiness! Where is our love to God and souls all this while? Where is our sense of the preciousness of time, of the greatness of our account? Should we talk thus if we believed that we should hear of this again at the day of Judgment? And do we not know that we must give an account of every idle word? Did saints in former times use their tongues to no better purpose? Would Enoch, or Paul, have talked thus? Is this the sweetest communion of saints upon earth? How shall we spend an eternity in speaking the praises of God if we cannot find matter for an hour’s discourse?”