A License at the Bar of God

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 24, 1865

A License at the Bar of God.

"Yes," said the Rev. John Pierpont, "you have a license—and that is your plea. Well, my friend, if that is your plea, I adjure you to keep it; look it amongst your choicest jewels; guard it as the apple of your eye; and when you die, and are laid in your coffin, be sure that this precious document is placed within your cold and clammy fingers, so that when you are called upon to confront the souls of your victims before God, you may be ready to file in your plea of justification, and boldly to lay down your license on the bar of the Judge. Yes, my friend, keep it—you will then want your license, signed by the county commissioners and endorsed by the selectmen!