Preparing for the Coming Judgment
By H. S. GURNEY
BRO. ANDREWS: My interest and faith in the closing testimony to the world is unwavering. Anxiously do I wait for the weekly visits of the REVIEW, so full of encouragement to the anxious, inquiring pilgrim; for I am watching the movements of the body, determined to move with them. Especially am I in favor of the straight testimonies in the church. I feel very solemn when I see that the testimony of Sr. White, given in much plainness of speech, is rejected by many, and neglected by others. The consequences will soon be known, when the temple of God will be “filled with smoke from the glory of God and his power,” and no one there to intercede, while the seven angels go forth on their mission of wrath. I want to make clean work, and avail myself of every means to prepare for the solemn events now impending, and the judgment of the great day. I heartily sympathize with our tried friends; those who are willing and feel the necessity of bearing burdens in the most important work of the third angel’s message. I do not feel like putting forth my hand to steady the ark. The Lord’s hand is set to the work, and woe to any who rise against it. To us it is a time of waiting and trial, a time of watching, a time of peril, a time of judgment, a time to search our hearts, a time to confess, a time of impending wrath, a time of great voices in Heaven proclaiming this world’s doom, a time to judge the dead, a time to seek meekness and righteousness, that we may escape impending wrath and stand before the Son of Man, who will come again as he went away. Although the signs of the times are thundering the doom of this wicked world, and the chances of the remnant, according to appearance among those who are looking for our Lord that they shall escape, look discouraging; yet when I look toward the Lord’s holy temple, in which the work is so full of interest, especially at this time, and view our Lord making those changes preparatory to his return from the wedding, I can, I will, rejoice in the God of our salvation. I hope in the long suffering of our Lord which is salvation. But I must wait. It is now a time of anxious care and weeping. May we all discern this time. Waiting in hope,
H. S. GURNEY.