Untitled article by Dudley Marvin Canright

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, February 4, 1868

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 8

THE COMING OF THE LORD.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

How many are preparing for this event? We all know that it will not be long before Christ will come in all his glory. There will be trouble, such as has never been before. Are we preparing for this? I fear some are indifferent to this startling fact. We read that none but the good and holy will be hid in that day. Then let us be up and doing while the day lasts, for soon the night cometh when no man can work. The time of trouble is near at hand.

Prepare for the time of trouble; for we read that it will be a time such as never was. A time of affliction and deep distress; when every hand will be turned against his brother. The saints have a sure promise of being taken care of in that day. But where will the ungodly and the sinner appear? They have broken God's law, and have not sought his pardon, and deserve the punishment. They will call for rocks and mountains to fall upon them and hide them from Him that sitteth on the throne. What an awful day that will be when the wicked are offering up that prayer, perhaps the first one ever repeated in their lives. Let us pray without ceasing, be vigilant, that that day overtake us not as a thief; and that our names be written in the Lamb’s book of life; that our portion be not with the ungodly, but among that happy number who are owned of Jesus in that day.

D. M. CANRIGHT.