The High Tide of Blessing
By W. A. S.
It is an interesting sight to watch the tide come in on the Bay of Fundy, famous for its high tides. The water rises from thirty to sixty feet. As the current sets in landward, the waves lap higher and higher along the coast. At every opening landward the sea bursts in. Far from the shore line, at low tide, one sees deep channels running through meadows and back among the hills, dry and empty, save for a little stream at the bottom flowing seaward. But when the tide rises, these channels are filled to the brim with the surging waters. Great rivers are stopped in their downward flow to the sea, and their currents turned backward before5the oncoming tide. Wherever there is an opening, the tidal current sweeps in upon with all the power of the vast ocean of waters behind it. Ships lying high and dry on their keels are lifted and sent on their way. Few of the phenomena of nature convey a more vivid sense of quiet, and yet vast and resistless, energy. Watching these tidal currents in the Bay of Fundy, I thought of the language of that quotation from the spirit of prophecy, made in a recent REVIEW:— God has committed to us a special work, a work that no other people can do. He has promised us the aid of his Holy Spirit. The heavenly current is flowing earthward for the accomplishment of the very work appointed us. Let not this heavenly current be turned aside by our deviations from the straightforward path marked out by Christ.
It is a striking illustration. The current from heaven itself—the infinite ocean of love and energy and blessing—is flowing earthward, to fill every open heart, and to accomplish the set work of flooding this world with the glory of the last message. The time has come, and the high tide of blessing is flowing. Neither time nor tide can wait. Everything appeals to us to cast down every barrier of sin and inaction, and to open wide the channel for the inflow of power and blessing for service. This heavenly current will arrest and turn back every unsanctified downward current of the life, if we let it in. There is salvation in recognizing the time of our visitation. The Lord in these days is surely visiting his church, and now is the time to press onward in the straightforward path marked out for the advent people.
W. A. S.