The Working Time

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 15.

The Working Time.—The present is often spoken of as the “watching and waiting time.” It is also the working time. Satan is trying to lull us to sleep. We are on the “enchanted ground,” breathing its potent, deadly atmosphere. The sensation is pleasant; we do not like to be disturbed. Like the sluggard, we murmur, “Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;” and the time passes, the morning dawns, the Sun of Righteousness rises in all His glory, and we awake to find ourselves shut out. “So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.” Prov. 24: 33, 34.