Are You Ready?

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 18, 1906

SAY, brother, are you ready for the coming of the King? Do the signs of his appearing to your soul sweet comfort bring? Are you of the few and faithful who believe the time is near? Does your heart beat high with gladness, or sink with dread and fear?

Are you halting and discouraged? are you tempted now to say, As the evil servant said, “My Lord his coming doth delay”? Because the Bridegroom tarries, do you think you've been deceived? Is the “blessed hope” less precious than when you first believed?

My brother, are you watching through the dark and sinful night For the glory of the morning? Do your eyes behold the light? Or are they dull with slumber, or dazzled by the glare Of the world and its attractions, which will prove a fatal snare?

Then arouse, and gird your armor! for the Master bravely toil; See that your lamp is burning, and well filled with heavenly oil; Be not like the foolish virgins, who awoke to woe and shame, With their vessels dry and empty when the midnight summons came.

—Herald of Life.