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Be in Earnest

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 3, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 3.

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Be in Earnest.

By R. F. Phippeny

PROFESSING what we do, we should be in earnest. We are expecting our Lord to visit us soon. We know that our cases are pending in the court of Heaven. And are we forming characters that will bear the solemn test of the Judgment? We cannot afford to jeopardize our hope of Heaven for the light and trivial things of this earth. We must be in earnest, and make thorough work. Life, eternal life, depends upon our faithfulness now.
Are there differences to be adjusted? Let us be about it. Are there wrongs to be righted? For the sake of a better life, for the sake of Him who left the glory of Heaven to die for us, that we might live, let us set everything in order. Let us remember that we must be without guile at Jesus’ appearing, if we would return to the marriage supper with him.
While the sands in time’s glass are nearly run, may we quicken our steps, keep pace with the message, and finally sing the song of deliverance.
R. F. Phippeny.
Gratiot Co., Mich.