ALWAYS TOO LATE.-

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 8, 1874

ALWAYS TOO LATE.—

Some people are always too late, and therefore accomplish through life nothing worth naming. If they promise to meet you at such an hour, they are never present until thirty minutes after. No matter how important the business is, either to yourself or to them, they are just as tardy. If one of this class is to take passage by steamer or railway, he arrives just as the boat has left the wharf, or the train the station. His dinner has been waiting for him so long that the cook is out of patience. This course, the character we have described always pursues. He is never in time for church, at his place of business, at his meals, or in his bed. Persons of such habits, we cannot but despise. Always start in time, and be ready at the appointed hour. We would not give a fig for a man who is not punctual to his engagements, and who never makes up his mind to a certain course till the time is lost. Those who hang back, hesitate, and tremble—who are never at hand for a journey, to meet an appointment for business, or anything else—are poor sloths, and are ill calculated to succeed in business or get a living in this world.