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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 3, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 1.

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The Judgment Hour

By Washington Morse

EDITORS OF THE REVIEW: Allow me space in the good old REVIEW to call to mind the former days (Heb. 10:32; 2 Peter 3:2) that we may be mindful of the words of the holy prophets. I am happy to live to see this sixty-second anniversary of the beginning of the judgment, and with a hand trembling from the weight of ninety years, I wish to call upon all that is within me to thank the Lord for his unspeakable goodness to me. I am mindful of the words of the prophet given in Dan. 8:13, 14; 7:9, 10. I with thousands of others have lived to witness the fulfilment of these scriptures in part, as sixty-two years ago to-day, Oct. 22, 1844, we came to the end of the twenty-three hundred years of Dan. 8:14; and it was said, “Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” At that date the seventh trumpet began to sound, and the temple in heaven was opened, and the time of the dead came that they should be judged. See Rev. 11:15-20. At that time decisions are rendered which involve an examination of the books from which all judgment is determined (Rev. 20:12), and an atonement is made for all who have overcome. The cases of the living, of course, come up at the last, and this is called the reckoning of the Lord with his servants. Matt. 25:19.
In 1 Thess. 5:23 we read these words: “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” The second coming of Christ was in mind when these words were written; and as this prayer was inspired, we know that it is also a prediction of what will actually take place before Christ comes. His people will be wholly sanctified; then they will be preserved and kept blameless, spirit, soul, and body, up to the very coming of our Lord. If men and women in this generation are to be thus sanctified and thus preserved “unto the coming of the Lord,” they need to be instructed in those principles that lead to such a condition. It is true that neither education nor reformation will produce perfection or sanctification; that is the work of the Holy Spirit and of divine power.
WASHINGTON MORSE.
Peterboro, Ontario.