Have no Time to Pray

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1857

"Have no Time to Pray."

INDEED, friend, "havn't time?" What is time? whose is it? Who made time? is time yours, or God's?—which? Has God given you time to live in, breathe in, walk in, talk in, pray in? Why not pray in it, then?—mind what God says. God commands you to pray—pray always—with all prayer and supplication in the spirit.

"But I have so much business"—

"Business," indeed? What business? yours or God's? Have you any separate business from God's business? If so, you are a rebel—attempting to dethrone God, and set up a separate kingdom!

Does God tell you to do your business first, or his?—which? Have you any business aside from God's? Have you?—we say again, a rebel, a false steward! "He that is not for me, is against me."

Your business should be God's business, and God's business yours—and your first and great business is to serve God with all the heart, soul, mind strength—this through eternity. The more business you have, the more you need prayer, grace wisdom, righteousness, salvation, santification.

Some farmers, and some mechanics, and some merchants, run off, clasp the "muck rake," neglect the closet, the family altar.

Friends; will not God by and by take from you the stewardship, and give it to others more worthy, more faithful, and more honorable? "Will a man rob God?"

"In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." "So shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses burst out with new wine."