The Laodicean Message by M. E. Cornell

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 5, 1867

The Laodicean Message.

By M. E. Cornell

In my meditations to-day, the question came home with force, Have you ever fully heeded this message? and I was compelled to answer, No! There is yet a greater work to be done for me. I must be more zealous in repenting. I must die a greater death. I mourn that I have so little power in preaching and in prayer. It must be I have failed to lay aside every weight. My mind has been too often diverted from this great and solemn work.

I much regret having taken any part in the Photograph business. I now see it was a waste of time and means, and that it was setting a wrong example. I see that the fact that many of my friends requested my Photograph, and that others had engaged in the business, was a poor excuse. I hope to overcome, fortify the weak places, and henceforth to keep to my legitimate work as a messenger of the present truth. I am distressed at the thought of my past indifference, and I now feel that I can never rest till I have the gold, the eye salve, and the white raiment. In the strength of God I would make this last resolve. Brethren, pray for me. I look back and wonder that my labors have not been entirely fruitless. Many times I have been blessed for the truth’s sake, and thus I have kept up courage until now. But when, oh, when, shall this lukewarmness be overcome? My soul longs for gospel freedom. For this I wait, and watch, and pray. M. E. CORNELL.