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NOT AT LEISURE

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 2, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 15, No. 11.

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NOT AT LEISURE.

By Ralph Erskine

I have read of one that presented Antipater, king of Macedon, with a book that treated on happiness; he refused it saying, "I am not at leisure."
Many have the book by them, yea, presented to them by Christ that treats of everlasting happiness, but they slight the present; "I am not at leisure," say they.
They have an opportunity of hearing the word opened on week-day, as well as Sabbath-days, but they are not at leisure.
They have means of knowledge, for hearing the same word, but they are not at leisure.
They have many precious seasons of grace, and seasons of prayer, seasons of duty; but they are not at leisure.
They take leisure for their own work, their worldly work, yea, for idle conversation; but they have no leisure for God's work, their soul's work, eternal work!
Reader, have you leisure to be saved? or are you willing to continue in the bustle of the world, neglect salvation and be damned?—Ralph Erskine.