Can't Think About it Now
No Fallacy of impenitence is so fatal,
and at the same time so specious as that of procrastination---"I shall have a
more convenient season"
A convict on being removed from one prison to another, was
asked how he liked tis new house.
"Not at all!" was the reply.
"Are you not clothed and fed as well here?"
"Yes, better"
"Is your Labor harder!"
"No, not so hard."
"Are you treated with kindness?"
"Yes"
"Then why not like it?"
"Because I am allowed to speak to no one. I go to the
table and sit and think; I go about my work all day to think; and at night the
iron door shuts me in my solitary cell to think! think!! think!! and I cannot
endure it"
Ah! he should have thought before an iron necessity compelled
him to do so; and should you think seasonably and act too. Don't say of
religion as above. "Can't think of it now,"--lest you trifle with your
souls. Be wise while it is called to-day? It will be sad thinking in
the prison despair.
"Death at the farthest, can't be far;
Ah! think before you die."
Title:
Can't Think About it Now
Author: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Year: 1866 -1871
Media: Newspaper article, glued to Page 1 from the Ledger of Captain W. B.
Blair
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