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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 28, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 53.

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The Morning Watch

By M. E. KERN.

WHAT is the morning watch? This is a comparatively new term with us, but the blessed experience for which it stands is doubtless well known to many. The morning watch is a regular morning season of Bible study, meditation, and prayer.
Is a regular habit of prayer needed?—It surely is. A miraculous work must be done in each of our lives if we are saved. We must walk with God on earth if we would live with him in heaven. A superhuman work must be done through us if we accomplish the work of giving “the advent message to all the world in this generation.” These things can be accomplished only in answer to prevailing prayer. We must live the life of prayer.
Why the morning hour?—Because that is the beginning of the day. “The morning watch is essential. You must not face the day till you have faced God, nor look into the face of others till you have looked into his. You cannot expect to be victorious if the day begins only in your own strength.” In “Steps to Christ” we read: “Consecrate yourself to God in the morning; make this your very first work. Let your prayer be, ‘Take me, O Lord, as wholly thine. I lay all my plans at thy feet. Use me today in thy service. Abide with me, and let all my work be wrought in thee.’ This is a daily matter.” “In the morning,” said David, “will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.” Of the Saviour it is said that “in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.”
“Begin the day with God. He is thy sun and day; He is the radiance of thy dawn, To him address thy lay. Take thy first meal with God, He is thy heavenly food; Feed with and on him, he with thee Will feast in brotherhood. Thy first transaction be With God himself above; So shall thy business prosper well, And all thy day be love.”
Church elders, can you imagine what a difference it would make in your church if every member were a faithful observer of the morning watch? The Missionary Volunteer secretaries just now are endeavoring to extend the influence of this plan and get all our young people to observe the morning watch. Will you not take this up with the whole church? Do not wait until the beginning of the new year.
A special opportunity is afforded to us just now to carry forward an effort of this kind. The Review and Herald having several hundred copies of the Morning Watch Calendar left over, will sell them at half price, 2½ cents. Can you not order enough for all who are not supplied? Further than this, for a short time our Missionary Volunteer LeafletNo. 40, on “The Morning Watch,” will be furnished free. Order both from your conference tract society.
M. E. KERN.