The grandfather clock was out of order. One night (so the story goes) a little boy awoke as the clock began to strike. He counted the chimes—fourteen. Tumbling out of bed, he raced down the hall, knocking on all the doors and shouting, "Get up! Get up! It's never been this late before!"
People concerned with preventing juvenile delinquency all agree with the little boy: it has never been this late before.
But it is never too late. Mrs. Eddy writes in Christian Healing, "Tireless Being, patient of man's procrastination, affords him fresh opportunities every hour." Hea., p. 19; Among young people in trouble, fresh opportunities are needed every hour.
