A Great Requirement by C. M. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 22, 1915

A Great Requirement

By C. M. S.

God requires that his people who give to the last generation of sinners the last message of salvation, shall be a people who represent the principles of his kingdom. It is no small requirement; and in human strength it is an utter impossibility, but in God there is strength sufficient to make it possible. It will do us no good to know simply that the strength is there. It must be drawn upon to the extent of our needs. To a people that are among the smallest of earth God has given a work that might well appall the strongest people in the world. Only in his strength is success possible, and we cannot expect that strength while we nurture iniquity. If ever a people was called upon to deny “ungodliness and worldly lusts,” and “live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world,” it is this people. Only thus can God make us a power for the accomplishment of his purpose, or crown us victors when his work is done.

C. M. S.