"Because he is soon gone, and once gone can never be overtaken."
It becomes us, then, to make the most of the opportunities God has given us.
The Usual Way
I used at one time to read so many chapters of the Bible a day, and if I did not get through my usual quantity, I thought I was getting cold and backsliding. But, mind you, if a man had asked me two hours afterward what I had read, I could not tell him; I had forgotten it nearly all.
When I was a boy I used, among other things, to hoe corn on a farm; and I used to hoe it so badly, in order to get over so much ground, that at night I had to put down a stick in the ground, so as to know next morning where I had left off.
That was somewhat in the same fashion as running through so many chapters every day. A man will say, "Wife, did I read that chapter?"
"Well," says she, "I don't remember."
And neither of them can recollect. And perhaps he reads the same chapter over and over again; and they call that "studying the Bible." I do not think there is a book in the world we neglect so much as the Bible.
Getting On Splendidly
One man said to another, some time ago: "How are you getting on at your church?"