Don’t be Troubled About Me

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 24, 1863

“Don’t be Troubled About Me.”

THESE words fell from the lips of an intelligent young man a few weeks since, while standing upon the rocks in the rapids of a beautiful river, in reply to words of caution from a brother. The next moment his feet slipped from the granite, and he was swept down and under the wild waters. As I watched the men “dragging” the bottom below for the body, I thought of the many wayward sons, and other imperiled ones, who have thus answered the words of entreaty in behalf of the soul, until the fatal plunge into the billows which have no shore, and where despairing victims will lift the bitter lament, each for himself, “How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!”