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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 9, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 30, No. 4.

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WHICH WILL YOU HAVE?

By A. O. Torrey

Dear reader, life or death lies before you, and it remains for you to choose which one of these shall be your portion. The issues depending on your choice lie just before you, glorious beyond conception on the one hand, fearful beyond description on the other. The glories of the New Jerusalem, so beautifully portrayed in Revelation but just await the people of God—while the threatenings uttered against the wicked will soon be visited upon them.
The time for the continuance of the world in its present state is just expiring. Earth, weighed down by corruption, crime, disease, famine and pestilence, is entering its death throes, and soon, very soon all will be over. Your destiny will then be forever sealed. Oh! will you shout with the ransomed of God on the heights of Zion, as they ascribe, “blessing and honor and glory and power unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever”—or will you join in the prayer of the wicked, as they cry for the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the face of God and the Lamb? Will you have your portion here, in the poor, vain, delusive pleasures which this world offers you for a brief moment, which must end in eternal night—or do you prefer the pleasures and glories of Christ’s eternal kingdom? Say, sinner, which will you have, life or death—time or eternity? Now you may choose; soon it will be too late. Mercy’s door is now open; soon it will be closed. The stream of salvation yet flows, though it will soon cease. “Then seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God for he will abundantly pardon.” Choose this day whom you will serve, God or Satan,—which you will have, life or death. Be wise, and choose that better part, which shall not be taken from you.
A. O. TORREY.