Don't be hasty | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 12, 1860

Don't be hasty.

1. BECAUSE you will be likely to treat quite lightly two very good friends of yours, Reason and Conscience, who will not have a chance to speak.

2. Because you will have to travel over the same ground in company with one sober Second Thought, who will be more likely to have with him a whip of scorpions than a bunch of flowers.

3. Because the words or actions involved in it are more likely than otherwise to be misunderstood, and therefore to be severely judged.

4. Because this is one way to please and give great advantage to a great enemy of yours, one powerful enough to be called the “Prince of the World,” and who has caught more people than can be counted, in this very trap.

5. Because such a fire may be kindled that it cannot be put out even by all the water a whole engine company can throw, with Second Thought for their captain.—Sel.