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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 31, 1865

To-morrow.

PLUTARCH, in his Lives of the Ancients, relates of one Archias, that, while he was rioting in the midst of his cups, a letter was delivered him, warning him of some one who lay in wait for his life. The bearer of the letter desired him to read it immediately, because it was on serious business and of the highest importance to him. "Oh," replied he, "I will think of serious things to-morrow;" but that night he was slain.

Think of serious things to-morrow! Thus are sinners deferring repentance from day to day. To the words of God's own appointed messengers, warning them of the enemy lying in wait for their souls, to the entreaties of Christian friends, to the voice of conscience, and to the Word and Spirit of God, they turn away, and say, if not in words, yet by their conduct, "We will think of these things another day."

Many, yea, most, who have received a religious education, are resolved that they will seek God at some future time, but are not ready to think of serious things to-day.

Had Archias immediately heeded the whispered warning, and opened his letter, he might have then taken measures to save his life; but, yielding to the pleasures of the day, he was lost. And, even had his life been spared till the morrow, his enemies might by that time have made his escape impossible.

And thus it may be, that, if the life of the sinner whom God calls to-day to be saved, is still spared till the morrow, the warning may by that time pass unheeded, or else the enemy of souls weave more securely around him the meshes of sin, entangling the unwary feet; and thus serious things are left till all are lost forever.

Oh! it is a fearful thing to strive with the Spirit of God. 'To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts;' leave not serious things till to-morrow.