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A GOOD THOUGHT

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 10, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 11, No. 5.

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A GOOD THOUGHT.

Having in my youth notions of severe piety, says a celebrated Persian writer, I used to rise in the night to watch, and pray, and read the Koran. One night while I was engaged in these exercises, my father who was a man of practical virtue, awoke while I was reading.
"Behold," said I to him, "thy other children are lost in irreligious slumber, while I alone awake to praise God."
"Son of my soul," he answered "it is better to sleep than to wake to mark the faults of thy brethren."—Sel.