How to avoid dying before the time / by Alfred Schofield.

  • Alfred Taylor Schofield
Date:
[1890?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to avoid dying before the time / by Alfred Schofield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Where are yon going ? ” he asked. “ Home to dinner.’’ “ To dinner! Ah! Do yon believe, my friend, God has fixed the day of yonr death ? ” Of course I do, sir, the very hour.” “ And the day of your funeral ? ” “ Certainly; and where I shall be buried, too.” “ And no power can alter this ? ” “Hone, sir, except there be a greater than the Almighty.” “ And yon are going home to dinner ? Do not your meals cost you something ? ” “ A goodish bit, sir, for I’m a hearty eater as a rule.” “ Why do yon eat and spend all that money use¬ lessly ? ” “We must eat to live, sir.” “ But listen, my friend; you tell me God has fixed the hour of your death, and that nothing you can do can shorten your life a single hour, there is therefore no need for you to eat at all; and would it not be wiser, instead of wasting all that money, to save it for your children, when you tell me that all your eating cannot add a day to your life ? ” The farmer seemed struck. “You must see the folly of such an argument,” continued my friend; “ but in the same way, though God, in His omniscience, may know all your future history, does it not strike you that it is as much folly to refuse the Bread of Life for your soul because of this, as it would be for you to abstain from eating because God knows the day of your death ? ” We all acknowledge that God knows everything be¬ forehand, and that it is our duty to nourish our bodies, but it is mere caprice and folly to say that because God is sovereign, therefore we are not responsible.
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