p. 11 | Do It Now

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 29, 1908

Do It Now.

THESE words are conspicuously posted over the office table of one of my successful friends, and in his workroom adjoining, one may see another sign reading, "Do it Now Avenue."

No wonder this friend is prosperous, and no wonder he is crowded with all the business he can attend to. He knows very well the worth of that little word, "now." There are hundreds who are robbing themselves of a prosperous future because they have not learned the value of "Do it now."

An idle present makes an empty future; and he who hopes for a prosperous future should understand that he can have it only by a proper use of all the "nows." It was Cervantes who said, "By the street called By-and-by you reach the house called Never," and it might be better for all our work if we could always remember his words.

There are too many who intend to do good sometime, but are doing nothing toward it now. And he who fills his to-day with nothing but good intentions is in a fair way to do nothing all his life.

—A. H. Lewis, D.D.