NO TIME by E. P. Daniels

The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 18, 1879

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 25

NO TIME.

By E. P. Daniels

No time to seek after treasures, Ambition's delusive goal; No time to court worldly pleasures— 'Tis spiritual death to the soul; No time now to spend in dreaming Of honors yet to be won; For the day of probation is passing, And the Judgment is coming on.

No time for repining or sorrow O'er hopes that have vanished away; No time to think of to-morrow, But of duties before us to-day. No time to seek greater attainments Than we need in the cause of the right; For the day of probation is passing, And on comes the darkness of night.

No time to fetter the conscience With skeptical doubts and fears; No time to seek ease and comfort In this dark valley of tears. No time for vain speculations In which the unstable delight; For the day of probation is passing, We're approaching the shadows of night.

No time for mere wish to be better, But to work to be better indeed; No time to be led by the wicked, But that you the wicked should lead. No time to think “I'm unworthy,” For there's no one good in His sight; Make haste; for the day of probation Will soon give place to the night.

No time to be doubtful and question The course that others pursue; No time to praise others for doing The very things you ought to do; No time to lay down the armor; For now is the time to fight, While the day of probation lingers, Ere we enter the shadows of night.

No time for aught but preparing; No time for cherishing sin; No time to linger despairing, In reach of the crown you can win. No time to stifle conviction That God's holy precepts are right; For now is the day of decision, Ere Christ comes like a thief in the night.

E. P. DANIELS.