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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 5, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 21.

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SOLEMN THOUGHTS.

By N. JANE LUCAS

This day has been one of solemn thought to me; and while my mind has wandered to past events, I can but realize that every day brings us nearer the closing scenes of earth. Oh! it will be but a little while ere the rending heavens will reveal the lovely form of the Saviour. How important it is that our lives be such that in that great day we can say, “Lo! this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us.” How many of us truly love Jesus and his appearing? I thank God that this very same Jesus that once walked this earth, poor and despised, is again coming back to earth to remove the curse and bring it back to its Eden beauty, raise his sleeping jewels and give them immortality and eternal life. “But” says one “the bodies of your friends will never be raised from the tomb.” Jesus says, “I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” These are Jesus’ own words, who can doubt them for a moment? I believe that the same Jesus that could raise Lazarus, after he had been dead four days, can raise our loved ones from the tomb. This is my hope. I believe it beyond a doubt. It is my comfort by day and by night. Oh! I rejoice that Jesus is coming. I want to see him in his beauty, and hear him say, “Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” Matt. xxv, 34. If I am his child, I shall hear this said to me; but if not, it will be, “Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels.” I pray God that I may never hear this said to me.
Dear sinner, come to Jesus. “Behold now is the accepted time, behold now is the day of salvation.” We have no promise of to-morrow. Jesus is about finishing his closing work in the heavenly sanctuary. He lingers a little while longer to plead for you and me. Soon he is coming as king. Then if we are the Lord’s children, we can say, This is our God.
Dear reader, may it be your happy lot to be found waiting when the Lord comes.
N. JANE LUCAS.