The Third Angel’s Message
By Josiah Hebner
BRO. SMITH: The third angel’s message is evidently the last call the world will have before the Son of man comes to receive his people, and establish his kingdom. May we each realize the solemn and awful time in which we are living, and order our lives in obedience to the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ. When looking back some fourteen years to the time when Bro. Bates brought the Sabbath to me, I can see that the Lord sent him in the right time to preach the truth, and the proclamation of the kingdom. I praise the Lord that the truth found lodging in my heart, and that its purifying influence has kept me to this present time, endeavoring to obey the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ. I mean to stand the trials of the way, and the persecutions of a wicked world, and in the time of trouble be safely kept, and at last stand upon the sea of glass, and sing the song of the redeemed. Jesus says, “Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” And again he says, “In my Father’s house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you.” And, glory be to his holy name! he will soon come again to receive his people to himself. My prayer is that I may be a perfect overcomer, and inherit all things, and live when the tabernacle of God shall be with men. And oh! how sweet the thought that we shall dwell with Jesus in glory even forever and ever. Praise the high King of Heaven for his goodness toward us. The Review is all the preaching I have. May the Lord in his own time send some of his ministers this way, is the prayer of Your brother waiting for the kingdom. JOSIAH HEBNER.
St. Clair Co., Mich.