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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 6, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 3.

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By Geo. W. Parker

WHAT are you now doing for the salvation of souls? Is there not now a soul unsaved for whose salvation you ought just now to make an effort? But, perhaps, sacrifices in time, labor, money, or feeling, may be required in order to reach that soul. Will you now make the effort? Or will you delay it till a more convenient season, and let that unsaved soul remain as lost? Unless you are wholly sure that you have already made every prayerful effort within your power to clear your skirt of this blood, haste to do it now, for Satan, the accuser, is rejoicing over your sins of “omission” as well as those of “commission.” Is your mind not free to perform this neglected duty? Seek God in prayer. Perhaps thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, “and do the first works;” lest the light be removed from you and you be left in darkness. If Christ made sacrifice to save souls, the Christian must, in this respect, be Christ-like. Have you become lukewarm? Seek to arouse those energies due the Master’s cause. Seek to “live holiness” in such a manner that there will be no difference between your life and the precepts of truth. Without this harmony of precept and example, your efforts for the salvation of others will be of little or no effect. Live so through the day, that when you lie down at night you can compose your mind as if you were not to awake “till the heavens be no more.” Get into that nearness to God that it is your privilege to be, and when you awake in the morning consider that new day as your last, and live accordingly. Let the mantle of earthly pleasure hang loosely about you. When the fruit is ripe it falls off the tree easily. So when a Christian is truly weaned from the world, he is prepared for death. A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one, and to such Christ’s coming will be none too soon, and from such the teachings of the Spirit will go forth pure, and with the power of God unto salvation.
Now, in the beginning of the new Conference year, let each resolve upon a searching work, with ourselves first, and thus be prepared to seek the salvation of others. “Now is the accepted time.”
GEO. W. PARKER.
Rochester, N. Y.