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The Fag-end of my Life

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 15, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 25.

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"The Fag-end of my Life."

AMONG the wounded at the battle of Stone River, in Tennessee was a young man. Over the mortally wounded son hung the anxious mother, in the deepest sorrow that he gave no evidence of fitness for eternal scenes. But the words the dying youth uttered were most decisive of the clearness of his own convictions of the shame and the wrong of those who neglect God till life's closing scenes, hoping then to find his favor. To a Christian appeal he replied, "If I live to get well I will be a Christian; but I will not throw the fag-end of my life in the face of the Almighty." He immediately expired.—Sel.