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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 3, 1863

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 21, No. 10.

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Loitering.

IDLE people all are found Standing on the enemy's ground, He will find them work to do, He will pay them wages too.
Are they not of wisdom void, Those that saunter unemployed? Young or old who fondly play Their important time away.
What a bold and foolish lie, When we hear a trifler cry, "I no other business have!" Has he not a soul to save?
Has he from his Lord above No one talent to improve? Let him go and muse on this, Sloth is the worst wickedness.
Sloth is the accursed root, Whence ten thousand evils shoot; Every vice and every sin, Doth with idleness begin.
We by idleness expose Our own souls to dreadful woes; We whenever loitering thus, Tempt the Devil to tempt us.
But suffice the season past That our time away we cast, Thoughtless and insensible, Dancing on the brink of hell.
Let us unto Jesus turn, For our misspent moments mourn; Let us in the Spirit's power, Promise to stand still no more.