WALK WHILE YE HAVE THE LIGHT.
By HARRIET J WESCOTT
“Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you; for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.” Dear friends, the light of present truth is a glorious light. It shines on the pathway of those who walk in it, but if we do not obey while we have the light it will become darkness. We have often seen this illustrated. Many have seen and acknowledged the truth, and turned their footsteps into the right way, but soon found the way too straight and narrow, and ceasing to walk therein have been left in darkness. Many sad wailings will be heard in the day of judgment, Oh! that I had walked while I had the light! but the great gulf is then fixed. Dear friends, let us never turn back. Nothing is to be gained in that direction but misery and death. Methinks I already hear the sad lamentation of the wicked, The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and I am not saved. What will be gained if we walk in the light? Eternal life. Our pathway we know is not strewn with flowers, but is rough and thorny like that of our Master. We shall be hated of men for his sake, but if we have our Father’s smiles we can pass through the trials of earth. Its doom is nearing. It groans with the load of sin and oppression that is filling the land. God’s cup of wrath is filling up, and will soon be poured out without mixture of mercy. Dear reader, where will you be found? with the wicked that are perishing with hunger and thirst for the word of the Lord? or with those having the approving smiles of Him who says your bread and water shall be sure? I pray and hope to be of the latter company.