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Glorifying God; Finishing the Work

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 5, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 18.

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Glorifying God; Finishing the Work

By Albert Carey

ALBERT CAREY
“I HAVE glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” Bowed beneath the moonlight shadows of the Kedron valley, in this last prayer uttered before his disciples, the Saviour thus proclaimed the accomplishment of his ministry on earth for men. Judea, Galilee, Samaria no longer would see the form of God’s incarnate Son treading their highways, ministering in their streets, or teaching in their houses of prayer. Not again would the Galilean sea ring with the melody of the Saviour’s pleading voice, nor her mountainsides be graced by his classes in holy living.
For the last time his touch had healed, his voice had pleaded, and now the work was “finished.” Over the Kedron lay Gethsemane, then the judgment and the cruel cross; but still beyond, the resurrection and the Father’s side.
Christ glorified the Father by finishing the work he had given him to do. The very first thought in the great message entrusted to this people is, “Fear God, and give glory to him.” Said Christ in that same prayer, as he spoke of his people, “The glory which thou gavest me I have given them.” Then he told the ultimate result that would be accomplished by this gift: “That the world may know that thou hast sent me.”
The glory which Christ gave his people was to entrust them with a work similar to that which he had done, and to qualify them by heavenly endowment for the same. But to his people in this generation has he given the “finishing” of that work, and this pre-eminently will glorify him. Thus the very words of the message itself, “Give glory to him,” cry to us to finish the work.
When that is all done, there will still be before us “the time of Jacob’s trouble,” the judgment hall of men, the bitter trials of the “time of trouble;” but O, what then? The Deliverer will come with the clouds of glory, and say to those who have been faithful, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: . . . enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”
Hickory, N. C.