NEEDLESS DELAY

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 3, 17 January 1907, Page 37

NEEDLESS DELAY

What is more vexing than needless delay ? Some little things need to be, done; On "it. depends the doing ' of a dozen, other -things, all. of which must wait until the first thiing is accomplished. Thus, sometimes a little thing which might be. done in an hour or a day hinders other matters which are of g£eat» portance, and' wastes time which is -of utmost value. Persons who desire .to be useful in the world should learn to do things promptly. Delay is .- often disobedience,. It is to refuse to undertake - a thing, than, to undertake it and delay "and dally until the hindrance becomes ten times as grievous 'and inju'riijous as a direct; refusal would have been a>t the beginning. If one jnan says he will, not do a thing, perhaps someone else will do it ;, but. if on©' says ' I go,' and goes nofc, he. not only fail's to do the work himself, but he prevents others who would have done* it and causes an amount of trouble of .which we fiequently have no conception. v My good friend, be prompt. What you undertake, accomplish. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it. with thy might.