p. 150 | TOO MUCHEE BY AND BY by Little Christian

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 11, 1891

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 17, No. 19.

"TOO MUCHEE BY AND BY."

By Little Christian

"WHAT is your complaint against this young man, John?" said the magistrate to the Chinese laundryman who had summoned a young gentleman whose laundry bill was in arrears.

"He too muchee by and by," was the answer of the aggrieved Celestial, who evidently knew what ailed the young man, even if he could not express his views in the most classical English.

There are other youngsters who are troubled with the same complaint—"too muchee by and by." The boy who has to be called four times in the morning, and then is late to breakfast; the boy who says, "In a minute," when his mother calls him to do chores or run errands; the young gentleman who forgets his promise to bring wood or draw water; the young lady who always "meant to" do things and have them in order, but who never, never carried out her intentions; the legion of folks who always have to be waited for—all these have "too muchee by and by."

People are likely to sing themselves into perdition with "the sweet by and by." What they need is the sweet "now," which is "the accepted time and the day of salvation."