The Hour of Trial

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 28, 1869

The Hour of Trial.

COLONEL ETHAN ALLEN, of Vermont, openly rejected the Christian religion, and wrote several works against it. But how little faith he possessed in his own principles when put to the test, will be seen from a fact related by Dr. Dwight: While the Colonel was engaged in reading some of his own writings to a friend, a message was brought that his daughter was at the point of death. His wife, a pious woman, had instructed her child in the truths of the Bible. When the father appeared at the bedside, the daughter affectionately looked at him and said, “Father, I am about to die; shall I believe in the principles you have taught me, or shall I believe in what my mother has taught me?” On hearing this question, the Colonel was much distressed, and, after a pause, replied, “BELIEVE IN WHAT YOUR MOTHER HAS TAUGHT YOU.”

Rest your hope, reader, on Christ; seek for the grace of the Holy Spirit; live to love and serve God on earth, and you may calmly wait for that HOUR OF TRIAL which will come to all.—Sel.