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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 10, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 20.

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THE LAST WATCH.

By L. E. Millen

Have we reached this solemn, this important time, in the third angel's message? How fearful the thought! Signs on every hand proclaim the Judgment near. Our cases are now pending in the court of Heaven. Oh! have we made friends with the Judge? Have we an intercessor there? O day of Judgment, day of wonders, what wilt thou reveal! Every secret thing will there be brought to light. Justice will be there. Mercy hath fled away. Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and who will be ready? “Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching; verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.”
O ye slumbering, ye worldly-minded ones, where will your idols be in that day of darkness? You will cast them to the moles and to the bats; for your silver and your gold is corrupted. You will have no refuge, no shelter, no place to hide your guilty head. You are left without excuse. You had the precious light, but you refused to obey, and the light in you became darkness; and, oh! how great is that darkness. You knew your Master's will, and did it not, and your house is left unto you desolate. In vain will you hunger, in vain will you thirst; for there is a famine in the land, not a famine for bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord. You will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east. You will run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and will not find it. Oh! dreadful state of deep despair! How dark the picture! O brother, sister, let us be thankful that mercy, sweet mercy, still waits to be gracious. The streams of salvation are yet freely flowing. Return unto me, saith the Lord, and I will return unto you. Seek the Lord with all your heart, and he will be found of you. Oh! heed the counsel of the faithful and true Witness, and when Jesus comes, be ready to say, “Lo! this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us.”
L. E. MILLEN.
October 23.