AN UNSEEN WITNESS

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 31, 1881

AN UNSEEN WITNESS.

THERE is a little machine made something like a clock, which can be fastened on a carriage and in some way connected with the motion of the wheels. It is so arranged that it marks off correctly the number of miles that the carriage runs. A stable-keeper once had one upon his carriage that he kept for letting, and by this means he could tell just how many miles any one went who hired his carriage.

Two young men once hired it to go to a town some ten miles distant. Instead of simply going and returning, as they promised to do, they rode to another town some five miles farther, thus making the distance they passed over, going and coming, some thirty miles.

When they returned, the owner of the establishment, without being noticed by the young men, glanced upon the face of the measuring instrument and discovered how many miles they had traveled.

"Where have you been?" he then asked of them.

"Where we said we were going," was the answer.

"Have you not been farther than that?"

"Oh, no!" they answered.

"How many miles have you been in all?"

"Twenty."

He touched the spring, the cover opened, and there, on the face of the instrument, the thirty miles were found recorded.

The young men were astonished at this unerring testimony of an unseen witness that they had carried with them all the way.

Thus has God placed a recording witness in our hearts. Wherever we go we carry it with us. He keeps it wound up and in order. Without our thinking of it, it records all our acts, all our words, and all our thoughts.—Sunday-School Journal.