Powder-mill Piety

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 8, 1861

Powder-mill Piety.

SAID a little girl who had just been reading the newspaper account of an explosion, "Ma, don't you think that people who work in powder-mills ought to be pious?"

There was a great deal of human nature in that question. The world, like the little girl, thinks that all who are especially exposed, ought to be prepared for sudden death.

But is not the whole world a vast powder-mill? Is it not filled everywhere with the elements of destruction? The very air we breathe may become poisonous and slay us. The water we drink may contain some deadly ingredient which neither sight nor taste can detect.

We are encompassed ever by unseen dangers. We are never certain of to-morrow. Then should we not be prepared, whatever our age, our business, or our locality, for sudden death?