No Time to Waste by Jos. Clarke

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 27, 1869

No Time to Waste.

By Jos. Clarke

As WE near the close of probation, how precious does the time seem to us! Every day, every hour, seems involved with new and unspeakable interest and importance.

No one who views these things aright can sleep over this subject. From the standpoint the S. D. Adventists now occupy, a flood of light is thrown upon prophecy, and shines with radiance upon our pathway. If ever a people were thoroughly warned, we are that people. For many years light has been steadily increasing, and now we realize that probation is about to close. Not many years, perhaps months, will pass before our High Priest will cease to minister before the ark.

A little time remains; a few fleeting years or months, and all is over. What is the scorn of the world to us now? What will it be then? Let me anticipate the time when mercy retires, and justice steps upon the platform. Why should we not anticipate that day? it will surely come: a day of wrath, day of grief and sorrow. The idler in seed-time is the beggar in harvest; why? because he does not anticipate. Anticipate, I say; anticipate the worst, and so realize the best. Anticipate the wrath, and so, in time, supplicate for mercy. So does the thrifty farmer inspire his children with enthusiasm for labor by telling them of the want, and hunger, and poverty, in the future of the idler. So we will look forward and realize the future, and thus nerve our hearts to perform the duties of the present. JOS. CLARKE.