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Where Art Thou?

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 21, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 63.

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“Where Art Thou?”

W. R. UCHTMANN
No doubt Adam had not only a set time to worship God, but also a place where he met his Maker every morning and evening. The whole trend of the Bible seems to bear this out. It must have been a blessed hour for Adam and Eve, spent alone with God day after day, a blessed hour for both God and man. But one evening when God appeared as usual, man was in hiding from his best and truest friend. “God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?”
This pathetic question has been re-echoing through this world ever since. Here is a church building, dedicated to the worship of God. Forty members meet there every Sabbath and every mid-week. Every member, whether young or old, looks forward in happy anticipation to the time of meeting with God and with one another. But on a certain Sabbath day Brother B and his wife are absent, and will not every member ask, “Brother B. where art thou?” God is the author of this question, and he will ask it every time some one is absent from public worship or from the family altar.
Have you ever seen a father at church, anxiously looking for some one to enter? What question do you read on his worried face? It is, Son, daughter, where art thou? If you have not thus watched for your child, you cannot fully appreciate this father's feelings. If you have been through this experience, you can have just a faint idea of the love of God, who all through the ages has said, “Where art thou?”
And why should we be absent from the place where we can both receive and give the greatest of all blessings? We give God the worship he requires. Read carefully John 4:23. “Bless the Lord, O my soul!” We can make God happy by true worship; and as a consequence we are happy. This is the highest attainment man can reach.
Our message is almost closing, and with it closes probation. Have we friends or relatives out of the ark of safety? Let us go and with a heart full of God's love say to each of them, “Where art thou?”
Bridgeport, Conn.