BE YE THANKFUL by FREDERICK KUNDERT

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 4, 1869

BE YE THANKFUL.

By FREDERICK KUNDERT

WHILE reading the story of my blessed Redeemer's suffering and agony in the garden of Gethsemane, and his death on the cross, as set forth in Testimony No. 17, my soul was moved within me. With weeping I exclaimed, What wondrous love our Heavenly Father has bestowed upon us! Brethren and sisters, how thankful we ought to be for such love and condescension. Blessed be his worthy name is the language of my heart. Come, let us forsake this perishing world with all its wealth and riches. Soon it will be destroyed by the seven last plagues. Let us have our whole being engaged in this glorious cause, and let us sacrifice for poor sinners with benevolent good works, and a godly, upright, Christian course of life. I find that the Testimony from the first page to the last is filled with encouragement, advice, and rebuke, for me. What a poor and scattered people we would be were it not for these blessed testimonies. Praise ye the Lord, his people. Praise his holy name. How good the Lord is in giving us line upon line, and precept upon precept. He shows us our wrongs because he loves us, and desires to purify us, that we may be able to stand in the day of his coming.

If it ever was necessary for Christians to live a holy life it is now, when infidelity and unbelief, which is the fruit of wickedness, is covering the land. Is it any wonder that we find the saying of the wise man true “where no vision is, the people perish.” We must come up in this work and labor with God's true servants. We must cheer their hearts with good works.

I want to be a true soldier of Jesus, who died such a cruel death, for such a rebel as I. God save his people from falling. Amen.

FREDERICK KUNDERT.

Monroe, Wis.