Now Is the Time

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A pioneer preacher was called to conduct the funeral for a man who never entered the church building while he lived. As the pallbearers neared the meeting-house door, the old preacher stood in the doorway and beckoned saying: “Gentlemen, I have never taken an undue advantage of any living person, and I am not going to begin imposing on the dead. If this man were living he would not enter this building. Put him down right there and let us respect him enough to finish his earthly pilgrimage as he lived it.”

The service was conducted from the doorway, with the casket resting on the church-house lawn. Perhaps the preacher was a bit “hard,” but he certainly had a point. Better think about dying and eternity while we live.

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