LIVING IN GOD'S TIME

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 19, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 16.

LIVING IN GOD'S TIME.

A number of years ago, Frances E. Willard made a temperance address in Boston. During her stay in the city, a young man happened to call upon Wendell Phillips, who entertained him until late in the night telling of the old abolitionist days, and showing him relics of their struggle. As the young man rose to depart, he said to Mr. Phillips:

"Mr. Phillips, I think if I had lived in your time, I would have been heroic, too."

Mr. Phillips, who had gone to the door with his caller, pointed to the saloons down the street, and his voice was keen with indignation.

"Young man," he said, "you are living in my time, and God's time. Did you hear Frances Willard last night? Be assured that no man could have been heroic then, who is not heroic now. Good-night."