Watch and Pray in the Last Days
By Samuel W. Pack
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I feel it as much a duty to speak through the REVIEW as to speak in meeting. I am deeply impressed with the truth of the near coming of Christ. I think the time is very short and we have no time to lose in making our calling and election sure. We are near the sealing time, and it is a very solemn time; for the seven last plagues will follow, and then our destiny is forever fixed. We have then no mediator between God and us. How necessary then for us to be every day prepared. Let Christ’s words ring in our ears, “What I say unto you, I say unto all, Watch.” “Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation.” Let us also remember that the last days are to be perilous days. While the wicked are drinking of the cup of unmingled wrath of God, the saints are drinking of the cup of suffering that our Saviour drank, and are being baptized with his baptism. But if we suffer with him we shall also reign with him. Oh! what consolation is in these words. Let us pray for each other that when the storm of wrath descends, and the floods of persecution arise, we may stand steadfast. Yours in hope of eternal life,
SAMUEL W. PACK.