1 _mo_.

4 .-- For want of faith we are too much inclined to serve ourselves before we are willing to serve the Great Master, thinking we may be able to do much for him afterwards, when it will more accord with our situation in life.

But, alas! this time may never come; if we thus put by the _acceptable season_, our lives may close with our only having performed very imperfectly the part which had been designed for us in the Church militant.

Painful would be the sting when appealing to the Judge of the earth, in a moment when we no longer possessed the capability of serving him, should the declaration be, Thou hadst a desire to serve me when in health and strength, but thou wished _first_ to _serve thyself_.

My time was not then thy time, therefore _thy time_ is not now _my time_.
A letter to his brother, written in the summer of this year (6 mo.