by
Isaiah Reid
Note these signs of unpleasant weather:
- No time for family worship
- Too tired to go to prayer meeting
- Plenty of time for the daily papers or a story and but little for the Bible
- Plenty of talk about almost everything but religion
- A disposition to find fault
- Defending yourself
- Lack of interest and effort in definite soul saving, but ever zealous in “church” work, such as any unsaved person might do
- Complaining of “so many calls”
- No interest in holiness literature
- Inability to do much in revival meetings
- No religion “to speak of.”
[Taken from Day by Day, The Highway Almanac and Diary for 1886,
the “almanac” (and Bible-reading plan)
published by Reid’s The Highway Office, Nevada, Iowa]