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Our Duty in the Present Crisis

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 26, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 30.

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Our Duty in the Present Crisis

By GEO. O. STATES

GEO. O. STATES
In every age in the history of God’s people they have been brought at different times to a crisis where everything depended on their taking the right position. Such a crisis was reached when Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Who is on the Lord’s side?” Elijah, who was a type of those who will be translated, came many times where he had to stand almost alone, and on one occasion he was accused of being the one who had made all the trouble, yet he stood boldly before Ahab and said, “I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord.”
It has always been true that in the midst of trying circumstances those who remained loyal to God’s truth have been accused of making all the trouble. There is no doubt in my mind that we have reached such a crisis in our work, and I find those among our people who feel that there is too much being said in the REVIEW relating to the issues in Battle Creek, and that our leaders are making too much of those things. Brethren, the facts are that the very pillars of this message are being attacked, and that we have come to a time when every one who believes the third angel’s message will be forced to take his stand firmly on the truth that has stood the test from the very beginning of this message to the present time.
We have reached a time when every loyal Seventh-day Adventist must take a decided stand for the whole message, for unless we do, the curse of Meroz will rest upon us. What had that people done?—Simply nothing. God’s work had reached a crisis, and men and women were needed to stand firm for principles of right; their sin lay in doing nothing. Before God’s people are translated, they will come to as close tests as did Enoch, and only those who stand firm in the midst of bitter opposition will be redeemed from among men.
Cedaredge, Colo.