p. 149 | A Good Act by C. O. Taylor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 6, 1875

A Good Act.

By C. O. Taylor

WHAT is a good act? The sending of one hundred pounds of reading matter, such as pamphlets, tracts, and papers, by the Adams Centre (N. Y.) church to the State inspector of State prisons to be distributed among the several prisons, for the benefit of those there confined, that they may learn a better way to live.

This unfortunate class of persons are under the law in a very unpleasant sense. Why? Because they have broken it. Another class will be found breaking God’s law when probation closes. No kind friend will visit their abode to look after their wants. And, from a heart of sympathy, help them to a different life. Their lamentation will be: “The harvest is past, the summer is ended.”

Now is the time for all to read, and inform themselves as to their duty. Now, there is opportunity to turn to God. Now, Jesus of Nazareth is passing by. Now, he is calling upon those who are breaking the least of the commandments to do so no more. In an especial manner the people are being warned to cease breaking that long-neglected and down-trodden commandment which reads: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

There are many bright intellects among the inmates of prisons, and some grow wiser by affliction. The church will be richly paid if one soul is saved in the kingdom of God, as the result of this effort. If none are saved, they will have the great satisfaction of knowing they have done their duty.

C. O. TAYLOR.

Adams Centre, April, 1875.