BE IN EARNEST by A. B. Simpson

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 22, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 25.

BE IN EARNEST.

By A. B. Simpson

WE are living in an earnest age. All the forces of human intelligence are intensely alive. Be in earnest. The world is in earnest. Satan is in earnest. Redemption is an earnest business, and cost its Author every drop of His crimson blood. The Holy Ghost is intensely in earnest. Everything in heaven, earth, and hell is earnest, but man. It is an awful thing for a Christian, redeemed by the blood of Christ, and destined to an eternal future of weal or woe, to be foolish or trifling. O friend, think if that day you are wasting were to be cut off the end of your life instead of the middle; how quickly you would awaken and tremble at the thought of trifling! If every hour you waste were deducted from the sum of your life at its close, how frightful the sacrifice would seem! And yet it is even so. God help us to be intensely aroused to life's solemn meaning.—A. B. Simpson.