HAUL IN YOUR LINE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 6, 1877

HAUL IN YOUR LINE.

“Take no thought for the morrow,” that is, no anxious, fretful thought. Walk through to-day as well as you can, and God will undertake for your future. When you go forward out of to-day, to worry about to-morrow, you are over the fence, you are trespassing, and God will scourge you back into your own lot. When I have been fishing in the mountain stream, I have always found that so long as I kept a short line I could manage my fishing very well; but when I let my line run out, the stream took it down and there I was, at the mercy of every stick that stuck up in the stream, and every rock that jutted out from the banks. I lost my fish and I tangled my line; very likely I lost my footing also, and got over head and ears in the stream.

Now, most men have cast out their line into life forty years long; when it ought to be but one day long. In consequence, they are not able to manage their tackle at all; but are pulled about after it, stumbling first into this hole, and then into that; slipping up here, and slipping down there, struggling and splashing about in far more distressed fashion than the fish at the other end of the line—and, as a general thing, there is no fish there. Haul in your line!—Sel.