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DYING WORDS OF SALMASIUS

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 1, 1859

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 14, No. 15.

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DYING WORDS OF SALMASIUS.

Salmasius, one of the greatest scholars of his time, saw cause to exclaim bitterly against himself when he came to die. "Oh!" said he, "I have lost a world of time—time, the most precious thing in the world! Had I but one year more, it should be spent in perusing David's Psalms and Paul's Epistles. Oh, sirs!" said he, addressing those about him, "mind the world less and God more!"