Brief Trial-Eternal Consequences by Roswell Fenner Cottrell

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 9, 1866

Brief Trial—Eternal Consequences.

By Roswell Fenner Cottrell

We have a little space in which to choose, a short time to work, a little while to suffer and endure; but eternal consequences are to be the result. If we suffer with Christ a short time, if we endure to the end, an eternal weight of glory will be ours. If we deny him and continue in sin the brief period of this mortal life, all is lost—life and happiness—and forever lost.

My soul! how vast the consequences which hang upon a moment? Choose at once, and forever, to give this little moment without reserve to God. Be in earnest, be zealous; make an entire consecration, a complete submission to God. Oh, serve him faithfully; give time, talents, and all the energies of mind and body, to the interests of his cause—the salvation of souls.

Weary traveler, hold onward a little while; the end of toil, and sweet, sweet home, are near. Sufferer, take courage; the end of pain, bodily and mental, is near. Mourner, look up! your days of mourning will soon and forever be past.

“Weeping endureth for a night, Joy cometh with the morning light.”

Those who sleep in Jesus will soon and forever be restored to our embrace. We shall be caught up together, and so be forever with the Lord. Oh, yes, the lovely Jesus will be with us forever, and all tears will be wiped away.

R. F. COTTRELL.