Too Late for Jefferson Davis
Story★★★★A recent writer on the American Civil War tells us that Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, was baptized by a rector and received into the fellowship of a near-by church when the Union Army under McClellan was about twenty miles from Richmond, where Davis lived! It looked as if the city would be captured. He put off that decisive step until his enemy was twenty miles away. Then he ran for cover! He waited sixty years to do it. That was too late. Not too late for God to forgive sins, for it is never too late for that; but it was too late for the Christian religion to have the effects in his life that it might have had.
The point
Jefferson Davis delayed Christian baptism until age 60, converting only when Union forces threatened his city—too late to shape his life.