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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 10, 1864

Do it Now.

We sometimes wonder if procrastination does not work more harm in religious matters than in any other; because the tendency to delay has greater scope in its affairs than in almost any others. It is certainly true that in nothing else is procrastination so dangerous as here.

You mean to speak to a friend about his soul. You have it on your mind to do it; but you are waiting for a convenient season. It is hard to find him alone, and awkward to do it before company. You have found him alone once or twice, but somehow he seemed specially eager to talk about something else, or your courage failed. Take care of this delay. If this is a duty you owe to him, do it now. To put it off is not safe for him, for he may die in his sin, he is surely day by day growing hardened in it; and it is not safe for you, for you may lose your opportunity, and have to account to God for a duty unperformed.

You mean to repent yourself. You have long been intending to. Your attention has been repeatedly called to the subject, and you now fully intend to do so soon. But the day never comes. It is always "to-morrow and to-morrow." Some more convenient season flits its phantom before you, and keeps your salvation always at arm's length. Take care! It is not safe. God frowns. Death approaches. Christ grieves. The Holy Spirit mourns, and may withdraw. Do not put it off any more till to-morrow. To-day is the accepted time. To-day he will hear, not to-morrow.

Reader! if you have any duty to do, don't put it off to an uncertain future. Do it now, and then it will be done.