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Unasked Watching

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 5, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 20, No. 10.

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Unasked Watching.

“WhERE have you been in this rain?” said Mrs. Walker to her husband, as he came in with his garments thoroughly drenched.
“I have been watching Thurston’s mill.”
“What need was there of that?”
“It was in great danger of being carried away by the flood; it would have gone if I had not got the waste-gate open when I did.”
“Was Thurston there?”
“No.”
“I don’t think it was your duty to be out in such a rain, attending to his affairs.”
“Why not?”
“Because he ought to attend to his own affairs; and besides, he is no friend of yours.”
“The facts are as you state them, but the inference is unsound. I should say he is no friend of mine, therefore I should strive to do him good: that is gospel reasoning, is it not?”
“I suppose it is?”
Mr. Walker was one who really believed that it was necessary for a Christian to love his enemies, and to do good to those that hate him; hence though unasked, and without any expectation of being thanked for it, he watched his enemy’s mill, and saved it from destruction.
God does a great deal of unasked watching for us. He has held us up many a time when we would have fallen. He has watched over our property, our health, our lives, and the condition of our souls. We speak of having accomplished this object, of having escaped that danger, of having sustained ourselves in such and such positions; and yet, without God’s watchful care and assistance, we could have done no one of those things. Did we ask him to watch over us and help us? Or was all that watchful care and assistance unasked? Shall we pass the remainder of our days in the same atheistic manner?—Presbyterian.