Untitled article by W. S. Moore

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, March 3, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 12

TO THE BRETHREN AND SISTERS.

By W. S. Moore

The minds of many who have received, and through grace are trying to obey, the truth, are now being impressed with the idea that it becomes them to be laboring in earnest, or with a will which cannot be daunted by opposition, in enlightening the minds of their friends and neighbors relative to the third angel's message, and the great and all-important truths connected with it. For one among your number my mind is strongly impressed with the idea that what is done in the way of disseminating the truth, must be done quickly. The perturbation, or confusion which exists, and is rapidly increasing in the natural, civil, moral and political world; together with the rapid fulfillment of prophecy, and the testimony to the church, corresponding with the plain teaching of God's word; all warn us that the day of salvation is nearly past, or the time is near when it will be said, “He that is holy let him be holy still, and he that is filthy let him be filthy still.”

We cannot all be preachers, but we have a variety of excellent tracts at the Review Office, which should not lie there unread. Can you be much better employed than to distribute them judiciously among your neighbors? Put a bundle of them into your pocket, and as you go out on your mission of love, pray that God may be glorified, and that the truth may find its way into the hearts of the people. Go to the poor backslider and warn him of his danger, and urge him to come back into the fold. Go to that poor, wicked neighbor, who is living without hope, and without God in the world, and if he has reason to believe that you are not only a professor, but a possessor of the religion of Jesus, he may, through the instrumentality of the truth, become a humble follower of the Lamb of God.

Go to those who teach, and receive for doctrine the commandments of men, and give them the light. Go to all, in the spirit of your Lord and Master, having only the glory of God and the salvation of souls in view, and leave the result with Jesus. It may be the addition of many glittering stars to the crown of your rejoicing, which he will give you, if you are truly among those who love his appearing.

W. S. Moore.

Pendleton, O.