p. 189 | Death-Bed Repentance by Talmage

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

Death-Bed Repentance.

By Talmage

I DON'T ask you to take my poor words about the brevity and uncertainty of life. Ask any commercial man whose kind of business necessitates that he calculate the length of human life—ask him in his business what he thinks of the uncertainty of human existence. “Oh!” says some man, “I shall repent on my sick bed.” Will you? The last sickness, as far as I have observed, is generally divided into two parts. The first half of that final sickness is spent in the expectation of getting well, in the discussion of doctors and the different kinds of medicine; the last half in delirium or in stupidity, or a consternation which prohibits religious thought, so that I take it for granted that the poorest place on earth for a man to repent of sin and prepare for Heaven is on his death-bed.—Talmage.