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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 21, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 29.

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Food in Due Season

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Editorial

Food in Due Season

Our Lord pronounces a blessing upon “the faithful and wise servant” who will be found feeding the household with food in due season in the period just before his coming. We have reached that period and the blessing is for the workers in this generation. The gospel message of warning and preparation, which should be lived by the church and revealed to the world,—the constant putting in remembrance of these things, even though they know them and be established in the present truth,—this is food in due season. Those thrilling themes which called us out from the world will call others out, if we will present them “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,” and these same subjects will revive the faith and hope of the churches if they are living truths in the hearts of the messengers. The nearness of the Lord’s coming, and the great work to be done for the church and the world in view of his near coming should be brought home to our hearts with an ever-increasing emphasis. The truths which have been the foundation of this advent movement are the truths for these closing days. “There is to be no change in the general features of our work. It is to stand as clear and distinct as prophecy has made it. We are to enter into no confederacy with the world, supposing that by so doing we could accomplish more. If any stand in the way, to hinder the advancement of the work in the lines that God has appointed, they will displease God. No line of truth that has made the Seventh-day Adventist people what they are, is to be weakened. We have the old landmarks of truth, experience, and duty, and we are to stand firmly in defense of our principles, in full view of the world.” A united people, standing upon the original advent platform and under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, could soon finish the work and bring the great consummation. Let every servant feed the household with food in due season.