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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 16.

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Only a Remnant.

By Josephine Mott

Have you ever thought what a small part of the professed people of God will overcome at last, even among those who have covenanted to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus? As I opened my Bible, my eye rested on the words of the prophet Zechariah: “And it shall come to pass that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third part shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined, and try them as gold is tried. They shall call upon my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The Lord is my God.”
They must pass through fiery trials that it may be known of what metal they are. An article may appear good until tried; but when a strain is put on it, it may break. So may a metal appear pure silver or gold; but when the test is applied, it is nothing but dross. But only a few are to endure the refiner’s fire, and the persecutions, trials, and afflictions that shall be heaped upon the heads of God’s devoted people in the last days. And right now we are in the shaking time when those who are not rooted and grounded in the faith are in danger of being shaken out. Shall we stand the test and have part with God’s remnant people, or shall we be cut off and die. Shall we hear the Lord of hosts say of us, It is my people? Can we claim him as our God? If so, we shall receive the name of the sons and daughters of the Almighty. Blessed promise! Will you, shall I, be of that number that shall come off conquerors amid all our fiery trials through Him that hath loved us, and gave his life as a ransom for us?
It is only a remnant, as it were the shaking of an olive tree, or the gleaning grapes of the vintage, that shall be saved. Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith. Prove your own selves, and may God give wisdom that ye be not deceived.
JOSEPHINE MOTT.